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The Hirak, a massive popular protest movement for democracy in Algeria which began in February 2019 and continues to challenge military authoritarian rule in the country today, is most potent when it can sustain mass mobilization against the regime across cultural, ethnic, linguistic, ideological, class, and racial lines. 1Elsewhere, I discuss the importance of sustained, cross-cutting mobilization in efforts to end military authoritarian rule. See Stephen J. King, The Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). This...

Cultural Diversity Leads to a Shared Future for the World News provided by Share this article BEIJING, Jan. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- An article by China.org.cn on cultural diversity: In the beginning, civilization was like a candle lit against darkness, its lonely glow only able to illuminate the immediate surroundings. Cultural Diversity Leads to a Shared Future for the World All civilizations are of equal value, and all have merits and flaws. There is no such thing as a perfect civilization or a civilization without a single virtue, and no one civilization should be judged superior or inferi...

A decade ago, protests in Tunisia sparked the Arab Spring uprisings. AFP Ten years ago a wildfire of revolts in the Arab world touched off an unlikely series of events that swelled, then dashed many hopes, and irrevocably changed the region. From the quickfire collapse of seemingly invincible regimes to the rise and fall of a jihadist caliphate in its heart, the Middle East hurtled through the 21st century’s second decade in a state of relentless upheaval. The chain of uprisings that shook the region from late 2010 and was soon dubbed the “Arab Spring” led to disparate long-term outcome...

Want insight into Biden's Middle East policy? Read Obama's memoir Eric R. Mandel, opinion contributor © Getty Images Want insight into Biden's Middle East policy? Read Obama's memoir Middle East pundits have been trying to read the tea leaves to gain insight into how Joe Biden's foreign policy team understands the region, particularly regarding Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Since so many of the president-elect's nominees served in senior positions in the Obama White House, it is natural to assume they will bring a good deal of their previous understanding of th...

Government. the brotherhood is going to have to be part of it in some way. i don't really know how this gets resolved. right now we are back to where we started. we vergovernment in egypt. >> bill? >> i'm heartened that if this document is correct and accurate and information some sort that the muslim brotherhood thinks that the coup in egypt was a real blow to the muslim brotherhood and morsi's ability to governor by a very very narrow margin behind him. if he failed, that's a good thing. i hope we aggressively push to support friends elsewhere in the region who are neither military or muslim...