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Arab spring News : Jul 18, 2012

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Meet the revolutionaries: How Olympic athletes rose from the Arab spring
CNN
“World Sport Presents: Athletes of the Arab Spring” is a collaboration between CNN and Sports Illustrated. You can watch the film at the following days and times in July (CET) on CNN International: Wednesday 18, 18.30pm; Saturday 21, 18.20am and 
 
Athletes of the Arab Spring head to London 2012
CNN International
Athletes of the Arab Spring head to London 2012. << Previous Next >>. The revolutions that have swept the Middle East have toppled dictators and brought freedom to many. But amongst the rubble, the sportsmen and women of the region have tried to keep 
 
The Arab Spring: defining moments (PHOTOS)
GlobalPost
In December 2010, a Tunisian fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire in protest of what he considered unfair treatment from his government. And so began the Arab Spring, a movement that has swept the Middle East and captured the world’s 
 

GlobalPost
Arab Spring on campers’ minds in Maine
San Francisco Chronicle
In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 photo, Daniel, of Israel, right, swings at a ball during a game of cricket at the Seeds of Peace summer camp in Otisfield, Maine. Eitan, a camper from London, center, and counselor Marcus Goldman of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, 
 

San Francisco Chronicle
Viacom restores Daily Show streams as Stewart blasts ‘cable Arab Spring
CNNMoney
“Viacom, DirecTV, what are you doing here?” Stewart asked. “You’ve got ad campaigns blaming each other for taking the shows away, telling people to rise up and demand it like it’s some kind of basic cable Arab Spring.” His scathing follow-up: “I’ve got news 
 
Israel’s old certainties crumble in Arab spring fallout
NOW LEBANON
Official discourse in Israel frowns on the romantic phrase “the Arab spring“. The reference point is more Tehran 1979 than Berlin 1989. In government offices the preferred terms are “awakening” or plain “unrest”. Politicians do use a seasonal metaphor, but a 
 
RAND: Balance needed after Arab Spring
UPI.com
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 18 (UPI) — Many Arab countries emerging from political revolutions may struggle to find the right balance between civilian and military control, a U.S. study finds. The Pew Research Center, in a report last week, said members of 
 

UPI.com
Pick of the Day: “Arab Spring, Libyan Winter”
Left Eye On Books
History professor Vijay Prashad’s book, the first major left examination of the Arab Spring, highlights the way NATO’s intervention in Libya has derailed the liberatory movement in favor of neoliberalism and geopolitics as defined by the Gulf states and the U.S. 
 
From Nasser to Tahrir Square: The Story of US Influence in Egypt
Huffington Post (blog)
Gardner, a Rutgers University professor, traces the implications of U.S. policy in Egypt from the dawn of the Cold War to the outbreak of Arab Spring in just over 200 pages, while drawing enlightening historical parallels along the way. He illustrates how the 
 
Arab Spring a ‘mixed blessing’ for Christians
ChristianToday
The overthrow of oppressive regimes in the Arab Spring may not lead to a brighter future for Christians in the Arab world and Middle East. Steve Bell, the head of mission agency Interserve, told the Keswick Convention that Christians were uncertain about the 
 

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