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democracy in the Middle East

Parvez Ahmed
April 28, 2017, 12:10 pm
Parvez Ahmed
The crisis of democracy in Turkey
Erdogan’s latest power grab was achieved through (more or less) democratic means — and there’s the rub
In this file photo released on May 14, 2015, by a militant website, a member of the Islamic State group's vice police known as 'Hisba' reads a verdict handed down by an Islamic court in Raqqa, Syria, sentencing many they accused of adultery to lashing (Militant website via AP, File)
April 12, 2016, 10:48 pm
Young Arabs say Islamic State is Mideast’s greatest challenge
Poll finds optimism over Arab Spring drops by half in four years, from 72% in 2012 to 36% in 2016
By AFP
In this Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015 file photo, a woman reads a ballot inside a polling station for women during the second phase of the parliamentary elections in Qalyoubiya governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
April 10, 2016, 1:05 am
Arab democracies? Not so fast, say some
The democratic hopes kindled in the Arab Spring have been dashed, leaving many in the region to urge a more moderate approach to Arab liberty
By Dan Perry
President Beji Caid Essebsi, an 88-year-old former minister, leaves his party headquarters in Tunis, December 22, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Hassene Dridi)
December 22, 2014, 9:44 pm
88-year-old ex-minister wins Tunisia election
Beji Caid Essebsi takes 55% of vote in first democratic polls, gaining control of legislative, executive branches
By BOUAZZA BIN BOUAZZA and Paul Schemm
File: Arab youth seen waving the Palestinian flag and throwing rocks towards Border Police at the entrance to the Arab village Kafr Kanna, November 8, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 11, 2014, 1:13 am
Revoking Knesset seats or citizenship: Understandable, but undemocratic
Netanyahu threatens to punish citizens who call for Israel’s destruction by taking away their passports. Defenders of democracy would be aghast
By Raphael Ahren
In this file photo taken Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014, Mona Seif, left, and her mother Laila Soueif, a university professor who is also an activist, stand outside a court that convicted 23 activists of staging an illegal demonstration and sentenced them each to three years in jail, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal, File)
October 31, 2014, 8:23 am
Family of jailed Egypt activists on hunger strike
As young activists buck Cairo’s anti-protest law, relatives look for ways to raise awareness
By Hamza Hendawi
Israeli soldiers begin a search operation in the village of Halhul, near the West Bank town of Hebron, on June 29, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/HAZEM BADER)
July 1, 2014, 9:37 am
Horror at teens’ deaths won’t prevent future exchanges
The sense of solidarity seen in the outpouring of grief over the abductees is a defining characteristic of Israeli identity, the source of Israelis’ democratic freedoms, and the reason they can’t abandon one of their own in enemy hands
By Haviv Rettig Gur
US Secretary of State John Kerry speaking at AIPAC, March 2014 (photo credit: JTA Photos)
April 28, 2014, 11:03 pm
AIPAC: Kerry’s comments ‘offensive, inappropriate’
In unusually blunt rebuke, pro-Israel group blasts top diplomat, calls Israel the region’s ‘lone stable democracy’
By Haviv Rettig Gur
US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, talks with Tunisian Foreign Minister Mongi Hamdi, left, and ambassador Jake Walles after arriving at El Aouina Air Base Tuesday, February 18, 2014, in Tunis (photo credit: AP/Evan Vucci, Pool)
February 18, 2014, 4:34 pm
Kerry, in surprise Tunisian visit, praises reforms
US ‘very impressed’ with new constitution, democratic efforts, secretary of state says
By Matthew Lee
Ofik (center), a young man in JVP's mentor program, is flanked by President Shimon Peres (L) and MK Erel Margalit (Photo credit: Courtesy)
June 26, 2013, 6:54 pm
Peres says Israeli tech can serve the world
On a visit to Jerusalem Venture Partners, president reviews technologies he believes can help bring freedom to democracy-averse regimes
By David Shamah
US President Barack Obama speaks in Cairo on June 4, 2009. (screen capture, YouTube)
July 21, 2012, 3:53 am
Obama praises ‘democracy’ fighters
Ramadan has a special meaning ‘for those struggling for universal rights’ in Middle East and North Africa, says American president
By Michal Shmulovich
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (photo credit: AP/Pavel Rahman)
June 2, 2012, 4:18 pm
Mubarak’s fate up to Egyptian people, says Clinton
US secretary of state doesn’t comment directly on life sentence, but praises progress in Egypt’s transition to democracy
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