How can political powers use their leverage to broaden humanitarian access without politicizing humanitarian aid?
Tag: arab spring
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One year after the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, there is waning hope that Egypt is undergoing a democratic transformation.
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Russia remains a critical factor in determining the outcome as the Security Council considers a draft resolution on Syria this week.
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Turkey’s experience with reform and its secular state offer lessons for rising Arab Islamist parties.
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With astonishing speed, tools like blogs, Facebook and Twitter have spread inspirational images of the Arab Spring around the world.
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‘I wanted to work on my novel, but it was impossible not to make a status every week, and the status is not enough, then I am on Facebook, and on Twitter,’ he said. ‘This is our role.’
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Recent decisions by the Arab League indicate two novel trends: a new resoluteness to engage with problems among its members and a determination to find a solution strictly within the Arab context.
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One image has become a symbol of last month’s elections in Tunisia: street walls covered with equidistant, symmetrical rectangles marking spaces for political parties to publicize themselves. This image foretold the orderly and well-conducted elections that took place on October 23rd and afforded Tunisians the opportunity to freely choose their representatives to the National Constituent Assembly.
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The execution of Muammar al-Qaddafi by rebel militants in Misurata on October 20th underscores again the new destiny of dictators. Very few of them die in bed or manage to go into exile anymore.
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The lives of Arab authors are frequently as dramatic as the accounts that they describe in their books.