Articles tagged with: Spring
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Friday, 31 Aug, 2012
Eighteen months after Mohammad Bouazizi set himself on fire, igniting region-wide uprisings, I am still coming across articles authored by Arab women lamenting the failure of these uprisings to advance their rights.
Implied in many of these articles is the assumption that by standing "shoulder to shoulder with men in defying tyranny" their plight would magically cease to exist.
There is no evidence in history that such a tactic, if you can call it that, works.
At the same time, very...
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Friday, 27 Jan, 2012
William B. Quandt has been a prominent voice in American foreign policy in the Middle East for over 30 years. Serving in the National Security Council under the Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter administrations, he was front and center in the negotiations that led to the Camp David Accords and the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty and he is an expert on Palestine, Algeria, Israel, and Egypt.
Today he is an author, professor and member of the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia a...
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William B. Quandt has been a prominent voice in American foreign policy in the Middle East for over 30 years. Serving in the National Security Council under the Richard Nixon a...
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Thursday, 5 Jan, 2012
Since the fall of Mubarak the tension between Egypt’s military rulers and protestors demanding for a break with past practices has dominated the country’s politics. Rather ...
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Thursday, 22 Dec, 2011
Internet bloggers have become the celebrities of the Arab Spring. The names of blogs and bloggers like Arabawy, Sand Monkey and Mona Eltahawy publishing in Arabic, English, Fre...
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Tuesday, 15 Nov, 2011
The office of Professor Mohammed Morsy does not look like the lair of a man who will soon become one of Egypt’s premier political players.
About 10ft square with a pot pla...
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Tuesday, 15 Nov, 2011
With the world’s attention focused on Tunisia, Syria, and Iran, developments in Yemen have made few headlines recently. Yet after ten months of violent protests, Yemen may be...
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Monday, 14 Nov, 2011
Earlier this year as the UN Security Council was debating what the appropriate course of action in Libya would be, it relied on the Arab League as a means of gauging ...
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