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Death Penalty Sought In Tunisian Dictator Trial

2012-05-24T09:11:32Z

TUNIS, Tunisia — The prosecutor in a military tribunal has demanded the death penalty for Tunisia's former dictator over his role in the deaths ...

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Elisabeth Braw: "The Revolution Will Spread Throughout the Muslim World - and Beyond"

2012-01-31T09:56:53Z

People call him "The Godfather of the new Islamist Middle East." Rachid Ghannouchi, whose Ennahdha party won Tunisia's first free elections last November, does indeed spearhead the post-Arab Spring Middle East.

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Michael Luongo: Middle East Dictators Write to Mayor Bloomberg

2011-11-17T14:51:44Z

Are Middle East dictators and other leaders, including a dead one, giving New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg advice? These letters reveal the secret.

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Former Tunisian President Sentenced To Prison And $100 Million Fine

2011-07-28T17:48:50Z

TUNIS, Tunisia -- Tunisia's deposed president, his daughter and son-in-law were sentenced in absentia to serve prison terms Thursday and ordered to pa...

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Corbin Hiar: Stolen State Money: Trillions Lost Annually, Only Billions Have Been Recovered

2011-07-25T13:34:47Z

The uprisings of the Arab spring have brought renewed attention to long-standing accusations that kleptocratic regimes throughout the Middle East have plundered their nations' assets. But recovering those assets remains a daunting challenge.

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Tunisia's Ex-President Faces Two New Trials

2011-07-21T08:46:23Z

TUNIS, Tunisia — A Tunisian court on Thursday postponed a trial in two new cases targeting the country's ousted president over alleged corruptio...

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Tunisia's Ex-President Denies Charges

2011-06-17T14:45:00Z

PARIS — An attorney representing Tunisia's ousted president denied Friday the charges against him and dismissed his upcoming trial as politicall...

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Rabah Ghezali: Why Has the Arab Spring Not Spread to Algeria?

2011-04-03T18:43:55Z

Algeria embraced the popular overthrow of Benali and Mubarak with happiness and pride. More onerously, however, these developments are a sobering reminder of Algeria's recent history.

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Kimberly Abbott: Yemen Between Reform and Revolution (AUDIO)

2011-03-21T17:30:20Z

I spoke with April Longley Alley, Crisis Group Senior Analyst for the Arabian Peninsula, about Yemen's political scene and what comes next for the country, with or without Saleh.

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Stephanie Rudat: Toppling Dictators with a Lethal Dose of Technology and Nonviolent Action

2011-03-15T17:41:29Z

Ahmed Salah, an Egyptian journalist and activist who had survived torture while incarcerated in jail for pushing against the regime, brought his mission to the United States.

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Ibrahim Warde: From Marcos to Gaddafi: Kleptocrats, Old and New

2011-03-01T17:17:55Z

After the fall of long-time autocrats comes the hunt for their hidden loot. Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi may be the wealthiest of all, since he is said to control over $150 billion.

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Tunisian Migrants Infiltrate Italy

2011-02-15T12:20:01Z

LAMPEDUSA, Italy — Tunisian migrants marched through this tiny Sicilian island on Tuesday to thank Italy for welcoming them, but the government ...

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Jalal Alamgir: Mubarak's Exit and America's Choice

2011-02-15T12:44:07Z

In cases in which an Islamist party was elected fairly to power, democracy was indeed dismantled, but not by the Islamists. It was dismantled by the paranoid reaction of America and its allies.

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Hussam Ayloush: 10 Effects of the Fall of the Modern-Day Pharaoh

2011-02-11T19:00:54Z

The fall of Egypt's modern-day Pharaoh and the establishment of a true democracy will likely shape that volatile region more than anything since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

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Scott MacLeod: The Long Goodbye: Mubarak and the Shah

2011-02-11T12:59:26Z

In Tahrir Square, the feeling came over me: Egypt is another Iran. I don't mean in the sense that Egypt's revolution will bring a radical, Islamist regime into power.

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David Paul: Food Matters: Commodity Prices and the Egyptian Revolution

2011-02-09T12:25:14Z

For all of the stories wired in from Cairo of the yearning for freedom in Tahrir Square, one question is rarely addressed: why now?

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Ali A. Rizvi: A Nobel Nomination for WikiLeaks? What About Bradley Manning, America's Liu Xiaobo?

2011-02-08T13:33:13Z

Snorre Valen, the Norwegian Member of Parliament who nominated WikiLeaks, was probably on to something.

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Michael Winship: For the U.S. in Egypt, Blowback Is a Bitch

2011-02-04T15:17:15Z

Ironically, blowback from the propaganda offense claiming the existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction now enhances the credibility among Egyptian protesters of a man that same campaign tried to discredit.

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Noha Khattab: From Egypt: A Proud Wimp Holding All None Wimps in Very High Regard

2011-02-04T14:11:43Z

I believe the Egyptian people have won a huge battle, and are on the verge of winning what has turned into a war. Egyptians today are not comparable to Egyptians on the morning of January 25.

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Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl: Why Are Uprisings Spreading in the Arab World?

2011-02-04T14:31:38Z

Tunisians' sacrifices have created a new moral climate in the region. If Tunisians were willing to make this sacrifice, why shouldn't I also be willing?

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MP Nunan: Former Dictator Seeks Housing/Long Term Exile

2011-02-01T15:56:51Z

If Hosni Mubarak were logging into Craiglist these days, it might look something like this.

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Shirin Sadeghi: Still-President Mubarak's Second Round of Threats

2011-02-01T17:01:59Z

There is a word in Arabic -- makhlou' -- which means "the fallen" or "the kicked out." It is a word Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak is trying desperately to avoid being associated with.

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Louis Klarevas: The Coming Twivolutions? Social Media in the Recent Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt

2011-01-31T16:44:37Z

Twitter and other social media networks are certainly powerful. But do they actually cause revolutions? What exactly does Internet networking contribute to political change?

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James Zogby: Limited Options in the Face of Turmoil

2011-01-30T10:22:23Z

In Congress and the media, new champions of Arab democracy have been born overnight. I suspect this celebration of the "Arab street" is born more of an anti-Arab animus than of a real commitment to Arab democracy.

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Parvez Sharma: Inshaallah Twitter

2011-01-27T08:42:56Z

While it is still too early to call the protests in Egypt a revolution, Cairo has been under siege for 48 hours. The three-decade long rule of a despot -- and the country's role as an American ally -- is being challenged.

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