The US Declares Permanent War in Arab Winter
How ISIS and Syria drove a stake through the Arab Spring The rise of ISIS is a setback for reform in a region that is crying out for it By…
Arab Spring
Democracy Blooming at the Margins: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine and Taiwan
From OpenDemocracy.net, yesterday. Jasmin Mujanović 14 April 2014 The terrifying spectre in these countries is not of ravenous foreign capital, though there is plenty of experience with this too, but…
Things That Have Gone Wrong With The Arab Spring
Dennis Gruending covers a talk by Nahlah Ayed, London-based foreign correspondent for CBC Television. These things that have gone wrong are many, and not terribly surprising if you were paying…
Arab Spring: uprisings, protests… not much to do with revolution
A recent Tariq Ali article in Guernica – What is a Revolution – challenges misconceptions about the popular uprisings in the Middle East that some pundits characterise as the Arab…
Obama: Let’s Play Politics Anywhere Except at Home…
Obama puts Egypt on notice after clashes kill 525 U.S. president urges Egypt to end state of emergency day after clashes with police-Morsi supporters The Associated Press Posted: Aug 15,…
Blogging, Democracy and Revolution
I came across this well-written piece on the role of social media in social change, written by Jesse McLaren. I’ve often thought that the role of new media, social media…
Blogging, Democracy and Revolution
I came across this well-written piece on the role of social media in social change, written by Jesse McLaren. I’ve often thought that the role of new media, social media…
Blogging, Democracy and Revolution
I came across this well-written piece on the role of social media in social change, written by Jesse McLaren. I've often thought that the role of new media, social media…
Blogging, Democracy and Revolution
I came across this well-written piece on the role of social media in social change, written by Jesse McLaren. I've often thought that the role of new media, social media…
Egypt – Morsi to the General: "Can I leave the country?"
I appointed you … Fascinating report from a journalist who claims he heard the conversation between Generalal-Sisi and Morsi: “And if I don’t want to go?” Morsi inquired. “It’s a…
Thoughts on the Coup in Egypt
Tahrir Square in 2011 In the early hours of 12 April 2002, with massive anti-government protests filling the streets, members of the Venezuelan military abducted President Hugo Chávez and, promising…
Egypt: The Revolution succeeds
The hope that the Arab Spring gave to tens of millions of people throughout the Middle East is being revived in Egypt. The Morsi defiance of the Egyptian army has…
Egypt: Morsi declares war
With my blood The Army stepped in, sending five helicopters with the Egyptian flag dangling below them, to fly over the packed Tahrir square in Cairo, and helicopters – sans…
Fearless photography explores the Egyption women of the revolution
The woman in a red dress being blasted by pepper spray in Gezi Park, Istanbul, is not an anomaly. Women are on the front lines of Turkey’s protest movement and…
Turkish Spring: Another take on events of May 31
Claire Belinski Claire Berlinski, writing in the City Journal in the wee hours of the morning of May 31, captured her thoughts about the beginnings of the Turkish unrest: But…