Posts Tagged ‘Arab Spring’
 

 

The Return of the Man with the Gun

The title of this article is not accurate, in order for something to return then it needs to leave first. The Egyptian Military never truly left the Egyptian political scene. In a previous article I argued that President Morsi ...
by Maged Mandour
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Why I Say No to the Military Coup

With no introductions, here is my personal take on the Egyptian recent developments: I disagree with the way they brought Morsi down; if it’s going to be a democracy, then let the impeachment be through the voting ballots...
by Mohamed Belarbi
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The Internet Responds: Egyptians Overthrow Morsi & Muslim Brotherhood Rule

Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood senior member, is no longer the president of Egypt. Morsi’s one-year reign was cut short, after massive protests across Egypt calling for him to resign started on June 30. Head of the...
by Global Voices
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F1 and Domestic Politics: Should it Matter?

The F1 world exists in a bubble of its own. Although highly political, its politics are usually internal, and as such the domestic politics of the host nation rarely rates a mention. Granted, (by and large, with exceptions of c...
by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
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International Political Forum

The Return of the Ottoman

The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has the status of a national hero in the Middle East. This status was first created during his now famous walk-out during a debate with Shimon Peres during the World Economic...
by Maged Mandour
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International Political Forum

Iran and the Arab Uprisings

Ever since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has tried to cast itself as the head of the radical camp in the Middle East. Iran’s foreign policy did not lose its revolutionary zeal through the years. Iranian support for radical mov...
by Maged Mandour
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Syrian Revolution: The Final Chapter

March of 2011 marked the beginning of the Syrian revolution. The struggle that rages on as I write this article has seen the lives of at least 60, 000 Syrians claimed by the regimes’ war machine. This astonishingly high figur...
by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui
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Now Is The Time For An Israeli Spring

A majority of Israeli Jews (59%) would support the government discriminating against the country’s Arab minority if it formally annexed the occupied West Bank, according to a survey published by Haaretz newspaper on the 2...
by Nadim Souss
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Why public spaces matter in the Twitter revolution, and how they are under threat

For anyone who now questions the uses of Twitter or Facebook, or dismisses them as trivial and unimportant, point them to the Arab Spring. Point them to Tripoli and Tunis, to the fall of Mubarak and the loosening of Assad’s i...
by Gareth Lewis
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