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5 May 2011Where is the Arab Voltaire?
BY Islam Qasem
No one could have anticipated that a simple man from Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia could trigger a cascading change in the Arab world. The self-immolation of Mohamed Bouaziz has done just that. The Arab Tagged Under Arab Spring , French revolution , Mohamed Bouaziz , Tunisia |
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11 June 2011An Arab spring but no summer?
BY Jeremy Salt
The attack on Libya is a copy-book example of high imperialism - gunboat diplomacy in the crudest fashion. Extraordinarily, only eight years after Iraq, the US and European governments are at it Tagged Under Arab Spring , Libya war , UN Resolution 1973 , US-Libya , war crimes |
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13 June 2011The Libya crisis and challenges to China’s non-interference principle
BY Professor Chris Hughes
The evacuation of 32,000 Chinese nationals from Libya and the despatch of a Chinese naval frigate to the Mediterranean during the uprisings that swept the Arab world in the spring of 2011 are Tagged Under Arab Spring , China foreign policy , Libya intervention , Responsibility to Protect , UN Resolution 1973 |
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13 June 2011Pakistan doesn’t have a Bouazizi
BY Ishtiaq Ali Mehkri
Sarfaraz Shah couldn’t become Pakistan’s Bouazizi. Unlike the poor Tunisian vendor who self-immolated to stir a revolution, Shah was gunned down by security forces in Karachi on a flimsy pretext. Tagged Under Arab Spring , corruption , Egypt , Kharotabad killing , Mubarak , Pakistan Army |
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17 June 2011The Latin road to Arab democracy
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The scenes that plagued Latin America through the 1980s bear a striking resemblance to those enveloping the Arab World since Mohamed Bouazizi set himself ablaze in Tunisia nearly 30 years later. Tagged Under Arab Spring , Argentina , Latin America , Latin American revolts , Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva , Mohamed Bouazizi , Peru , the lost decade , Tunisia |
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14 June 2011Minority cloud looms over Arab summer
BY Sreeram Chaulia
The future of minority communities is delicately poised as the hope of the Arab spring segues into an Arab summer in which crackdowns prevail. Even as the central plot running across the Middle Tagged Under Arab Spring , Bashar al-Assad , Christians , Hafez Assad , Hosni Mubarak , Muslim Brotherhood , Saddam Hussein , Shias , Sunnis |
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16 June 2011Arab spring is ‘threat to Christians’ says UK archbishop
BY David Sapsted
The Arab Spring is posing a threat to Christian communities throughout the Middle East, the spiritual head of the Anglican Church has warned. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Tagged Under Arab Spring , Bashar al-Assad , Christians , Hafez Assad , Hosni Mubarak , Muslim Brotherhood , Saddam Hussein , Shias , Sunnis |
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30 May 2011What the revolutions mean for us
BY Jan Fingerland
Imagine that I am a Martian who has just landed on Earth, and I know nothing about the Middle East. How would you explain to me what is happening now in the Arab world? Tagged Under Arab Spring , Iraq war , Libya war |
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13 May 2011India’s Tahrir Square - West Bengal
BY Surjit S Bhalla
It is natural, particularly for the youth, to be a part of a revolution. Just witness the outpouring of support for what was considered to be India’s Tahrir Square—the Hazare led anti-corruption Tagged Under Arab Spring , Communism , CPM , mamata banerjee , west bengal , Youth |
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25 June 2011‘US will always support universal principles’
BY Abhishek G. Bhaya
Jeffrey D Feltman, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, was in Muscat last week. Tagged Under Arab Spring , Arab-Israeli conflict , Obama administration , US-Middle East |