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The Arab Spring’s painful lessons

Fifteen years after the Middle East’s largest pro-democracy movement, the West still has not learned that supporting ...
Recently published analyses teach the following lessons: Lesson 1. The Arab uprisings are not necessarily democratic in nature, and liberal readiness to back them — morally or with arms and material ...
The recent Arab Cup hosted in Qatar and the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Morocco offer valuable insights into evolving models of sport ...
50 million Arab students from kindergarten to grade 12 will have access to 1,000 free online Arabic language lessons by end of 2020. Innovative educational videos and animated stories will encourage ...
Looking back is necessary if we want to move forward. The Arab-Israeli conflict is an apt case in point, writes Abdel-Moneim Said The US Middle East peace plan invites us to look back and try to learn ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Filiu has produced an annotated chronology of the Arab uprisings that began in late 2010, based on the evidence available as of May 2011. It is an optimistic rendering, predicting the end of Arab ...
The second wave of Arab uprisings that started in Sudan in December last year and extended to Algeria, Lebanon and Iraq this year have built on past experiences of political transitions during the ...
President Obama will speak today on new US policy toward the Muslim world in the wake of the Arab Spring. Let’s hope our nation’s Afghan strategists also note the big lesson of the Arab revolts — ...