Tunisia is not out of the woods yet – its democratic process is still under immense pressure.
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Failure of top-down modernisation and disintegration of post-colonial national borders have cost the
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Egypt’s army played a vital part in ousting Mubarak, but in the landscape now emerging, their role is more complex.
Two sides are fighting a cold war over the nature of Libya’s new political order.
While slow to react to the Arab Spring, US diplomats are working to make sure the region remains under their hegemony.
Women have been at the forefront of various Arab uprisings, forging their own identity in the process.
The resilience of the Libyan regime is creating a false sense of security among other Arab despots, analyst argues.
The media continually builds an association of Islam with war,instability and repression, creating a false stereotype.
The Israeli assault on Lebanon has poignantly brought two truths home: that some Arab states are unable to respond to ever- mounting external threats, and that the burden of homeland protection is increasingly shifting from the standard political order to non-state actors.
The G8 convened just as Israel’s tanks pounded Palestinian towns, villages and refugee camps, while a few miles away its warplanes set Lebanon’s skies ablaze, turning its nights into an inferno of bombs, death and misery.
