1 November, 2012 – MERIP
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For background on the Orange Movement and the fight for women’s political rights, see Mary Ann Tétreault, “Kuwait’s Annus Mirabilis,” Middle East Report Online, September 7, 2006 and Mary Ann Tétreault and Mohammed al-Ghanim, “The Day After ‘Victory’: Kuwait’s 2009 Election and the Contentious Present,” Middle East Report Online, July 8, 2009.
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In the New York Review of Books, Hussein Agha and Robert Malley imagine the results of the Arab revolts as the possible beginning of a reconstitution of the Ottoman Empire. They see the regional unrest as media-driven, with various partisans asserting their own versions of reality to mobilize popular support. Outsiders fumble for understanding as forces push back and forth, now winning and now losing. Some see Islamists as the only ones with moral standing, yet Islamists in power seem ready and eager to “compromise” with the West to attract money and space to pursue their domestic projects. Continue reading
The <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Tories are in deep trouble over Lansley’s health ‘reforms’. Their <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Lib Dem coalition partners are deeply split over it, in the <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Lords Shirley Williams appears to be among those fighting hardest to defeat it. The Labour Party meanwhile, though it has capitulated on the public sector pay freeze and on the wider issue of <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>cuts, is making defeating it in <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>parliament a cause celebre.
The New Dark Age 