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Tunisia
Who Are the Islamists?
Thalia Beaty* | 28 Jul 2012
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, left, meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, right, at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 13, 2012. (Photo credit: AP) A search for the word “Islamist” yields headlines about Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt of rising tides and steamrollers, wins and loses, prohibitions and riots, worry and concern. While...Kazeboon – A Poem
Massoud Hayound* | 17 Jul 2012
Protesters chant slogans against President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali during a demonstration in Tunis, Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. (Photo credit: AP/Christophe Ena) The revolution was over before it started, read newspapers shipped down from the Metropole, to my grandparents’ homes in a North, made a Global South Remember? Oh je voudrais tant que tu te souviennes How...PODCAST: Interview with Ghanem Nuseibeh on Philanthropy in the Middle East & North Africa
Muftah Editors | 11 Jun 2012
In this Muftah podcast, we speak to Ghanem Nuseibeh, founder and director of Cornerstone Global Associates, a London-based consulting company, that, among other things, provides political and economic risk assessment to companies operating in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as to regional countries. Mr. Nuseibeh is also a philanthropist working on...Military Decision-Making During the Arab Spring
Daniel Steiman* | 29 May 2012
Protesters shout slogans against military rulers in front of Egyptian military police standing guard near the Ministry of Defense in the Abbassiya district of Cairo As the mass protests of the Arab Spring spread from country to country throughout the Arab world, the regimes in question had an array of options to choose from in how to handle the growing unrest...On Mona El Tahawy’s “Hate” Argument
Mohamed Daadaoui* | 2 May 2012
Mona El Tahawy’s latest article in Foreign Policy has provoked a firestorm of controversy in the blogosphere. Her provocative title “Why do they hate us?” evoked the much-loathed question posed by Bernard Lewis in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks of why the Middle East hates America. Perhaps therein lies one of the many contentious issues with what is...Separating Religion from Politics: the Future of Egyptian Democracy
Ammar Maleki* | 27 Jul 2012
Egyptian President and Muslim Brotherhood member, Mohamed Morsi One year after the fall of Arab dictators, Islamist political parties have emerged victorious in the first democratic elections in both Tunisia and...#MuftahChat: Debating & Defying Stereotypes about the Middle East
Muftah Editors | 12 Jul 2012
Join the Muftah team at the hashtag #MuftahChat on the first and third Wednesday of every month at 12:30 pm Eastern Standard Time for a Twitter discussion of all things Middle East. Themes will include policy,...Dreams Deferred; Co-opting the Mideast Revolts
Yousef K. Baker* | 29 May 2012
A dream haunts the people of the Middle East. Since the decline of the Ottoman Empire, this dream has motivated movements seeking collective dignity, whether nationalist, internationalist, right wing, left wing,...Trojan Horse at the Gate?: Political Islamists & Democratization in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring
Luciana Storelli – Castro* | 29 May 2012
Egyptian Presidential candidate and moderate Islamist, Abdel Moein Aboul Fotouh (Photo credit: Khalil Hamra/AP) Democratic regimes mushroomed under the “third wave”[i] of democratization, as authoritarian...Call for Submissions: Special Issue “After the Revolution: Looking Forward”
Muftah Editors | 9 Feb 2012
Muftah.org and Democracy & Society Present A Special Issue – After the Revolution: Looking Forward Volume 9, Issue 2 We are seeking well-written, interesting submissions of 1500-2000 words on the theme...
