[Debate] Fwd: Recovering From the Spring, at a Price

[Jai Sen]

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Worlds in movement…

It’s already nearly a year and a half since the revolts first took place in Tunisia and Egypt, and there’s a lot that has happened in that region since then and that is continuing to happen that is of interest and concern to anyone interested in the way the world is unfolding. In many ways, it is key.

And for those more specifically involved or interested in the World Social Forum, since its next world meeting is – at present – still scheduled to be held in either Tunisia or Egypt this coming January (2013) it’s surely of the greatest importance to familiarise yourself with developments in the region from well ahead.

For those interested therefore, here are three references for those interested in following events in the region, in English :

·     The website Jadaliyya, @ http://www.jadaliyya.com/,

·     Pambazuka News (to subscribe to Pambazuka News, go to http://pambazuka.gn.apc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pambazuka-news or send a message to editor at pambazuka.org with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line; and to view it, go to http://www.pambazuka.org/en/, and –

·     ‘Arabs Rise for Rights’, the e-newsletter that IPS publishes on and from the region, as below.

If anyone has any other suggestions, and/or comments on any of these three suggestions, please do post them here.

JS

[Am ‘travelling’ / away from my home base, and so having some problems sending my mail from my main eddress jai.sen at cacim.net.  I’m therefore using my gmail id to send this. If you’re only replying to me personally however, please do so at this main eddress.  Thanks !]

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> From: IPS - Arabs Rise for Rights <newsletter at ipsnews.net>
> Subject: Recovering From the Spring, at a Price
> Date: May 16, 2012 3:18:16 AM EDT
> To: <jai.sen at cacim.net>
> Reply-To: IPS - Arabs Rise for Rights <newsletter at ipsnews.net>
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> Presidential Hopefuls Haunted by their Past 
> Cam McGrath
> CAIRO, May 15 - One is a conservative Islamist attempting to reinvent himself as a pragmatic liberal, the other is a secular statesman trying to distance himself from the authoritarian regime he once served. Both aspire to be Egypt’s first civilian president.	
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> U.S. Arms Sale Sends Wrong Signal to Bahrain, Groups Say 
> Jim Lobe*
> WASHINGTON, May 14 - The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is sending the wrong signal to the government of Bahrain in proceeding with a partial sale of new arms to Manama, according to human rights activists and some lawmakers here.	
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> Deserting Refugees in the Sahara 
> Rebecca Murray
> KUFRA, Libya, May 13 - As dusk settles over the isolated Saharan town Kufra, young guards order a few hundred migrants lined up at a detention centre to chant "Libya free, Chadians out", before they kneel down for evening prayers.	
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> Recovering From the Spring, at a Price 
> Mona Alami
> AMMAN, May 12 - The Arab Spring sent scores of sick and injured Libyans, fleeing their war- torn country, straight to Jordan, where the influx of patients is putting a lot of pressure on Jordanian hospitals and disrupting the lives of Libyan and Jordanian patients alike.	
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> Tunisia's Revolution is Just Beginning 
> Isolda Agazzi
> GENEVA, May 9 - Lingering violence, intolerance and oppression in Tunisia, following the ousting of former dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, tells the revolutionaries who sparked the Arab Spring that their work is just beginning.	
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