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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

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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

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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

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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.

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17 June 2011The Latin road to Arab democracy BY

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.

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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.

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