TUNISIA: CHALLENGES ABOUND AFTER ARAB SPRING SUCCESS – ANALYSIS
Hassan Mneimneh, principal at Middle East Alternatives, Washington in his recent article – ‘The “Arab Spring” that is no more’, on the fourth anniversary of the event remarked that only Tunisia, where...
View ArticleRifts running through the Arab world
Imperialist intervention and sectarian conflict are at the heart of the violence in the Middle East today, but any challenge to the status quo must address questions of social and economic justice,...
View ArticleEl-Sisi on How Arab Allies View United States Leadership: “Difficult Question”
Asked to define the Middle East’s relationship with the Obama administration Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said “difficult question.” el-Sisi spoke in the Egyptian language for nearly all of...
View ArticleAFTER ARAB SPRING, SURVEILLANCE IN EGYPT INTENSIFIES
CAIRO — It’s been four years since a popular uprising known as the Arab Spring forced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign, and yet leading information activists say that government surveillance...
View ArticleAnti-Islamic State allies to press Iraq to court Sunni minority
Ministers from Western and Middle Eastern countries fighting Islamic State will tell Iraq on Tuesday to be more inclusive of its Sunni minority as they reassess their strategy against the jihadists...
View ArticleLibya says ‘uncatchable’ militant killed in US strike
Tripoli/Washington – A veteran militant, blamed for masterminding an Algerian gas field attack and running smuggling routes across North Africa, has been killed in a US air strike inside Libya, said...
View ArticleThe Arab Spring and the Rise of non- State Actors
It the past four years, Arabs have been living in endless Sisyphean ordeal, an unexpected nightmare after rising for what they called “the Arab Spring”. A very similar scenario was cloned in most of...
View ArticleThe promise of the Arab Spring inspired these women to stand up, despite the...
From Syria to Egypt and from Libya to Yemen, citizens on the ground demanded civil rights and an end to corruption. But protests and demonstrations soon gave way to riots and civil wars, and further...
View ArticleWith Morsi’s sentence, the broken hope of the Arab Spring is now plain to see
As news of Mohamed Morsi’s death sentence broke this week, it capped a stunning reversal of the Egyptian revolution. At one point the emblem of a peaceful overthrow of an autocratic ruler, what has...
View ArticleLook who smuggled Soros into ‘Arab Spring’ country
U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker recently brought billionaire George Soros to a business roundtable with the president of Tunisia to discuss rebuilding that country’s economy. Read more :
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