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Arab spring News of the day : Dec 8, 2011

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What Will Post-Arab Spring Intellectuals Write About?
Huffington Post (blog)
All generations since the war of 1967 were indeed “staring blankly into the skies, like idiots” but the young generation of today — that of the Arab Spring — does not merit such a derogatory description. Simply put, people have put Nizar’s words into 
The Arab Spring and Israel’s winter hibernation
Haaretz
The Israeli response to the ‘Arab Spring‘ has taken the form of ‘winter hibernation’; like a polar bear, Israel retreated into its cave, withdrew into itself and waited until the rage passed. Last weekend, a group of Europeans, Israelis, Palestinians, 

Haaretz
Insight: Algerian Islamists hope for “Arab Spring” revival
Reuters
But they see an opportunity in the upheavals of the “Arab Spring,” which have this year unseated entrenched secularist leaders. In neighboring Tunisia, a previously outlawed Islamist movement has come to power, while in Egypt Islamists have taken a
The Arab Spring Has Yet to Focus on Media Freedoms
Huffington Post (blog)
Did the independent media help produce the Arab Spring or did the revolutions succeed in liberating local media in the Arab world? This and many other questions were debated and discussed by Arab and international freedom of expression advocates and 
Russia: taking sides in Arab Spring endangers region
Reuters AlertNet
BRUSSELS, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign minister told NATO counterparts on Wednesday that trying to influence upheavals in the Arab world risked adding to tensions, especially sectarian ones, that could “blow this whole geopolitical space …
Blogger brings the Arab Spring to Moscow
Radio Netherlands
At Moscow’s biggest opposition demonstration in recent years, Russia’s most popular blogger, Alexei Navalny, is showing that it’s not just via the web that he can work a crowd. “One for all!” he shouts at the people protesting against the 4 …
Qatar Premier highlights Arab Spring in Bali Democracy Forum
Peninsula On-line
Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim underscored in his speech the democratic transformations happening in the Arab world with the Arab Spring early this year that freed Tunisia, Egypt and Libya from long-time dictatorships. Tunisia and Egypt have just held 
Arab world ‘must manage risks of transition well in a critical period’
gulfnews.com
After the Arab Spring, it is now much clearer that societies with more equitable distributions of wealth are associated with greater economic stability and more sustained growth. Dubai: The Middle East is moving into one of the most difficult periods 

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