Iran, the Arab revolt and the Middle East tomorrow
(lemonde. com / Alain Frachon / 03.03.2011)
Question of realpolitik, not lyrical-sentimental but what the Middle East tomorrow? What will the region subsides when the wind storm that blows for nearly two and a half months? Response heard, sometimes in Washington, and often in Jerusalem: "All this is good for Iran." Which implies that it is pas très bon pour l'Amérique et encore moins pour Israël ...
democracy in Arab States: "The Sharia is not an established Code
(fr-online / 03.03.2011)
The Berlin Islamic scholar Gudrun Krämer, interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau on the possibilities of democratic rule in the Arab world, and also about that and how human rights are derived from the Sharia.
revolutions in the Middle East: Arab "republics of fear" at the end?
(qantara.de / 03.03.2011)
The recent protests in the Arab world that military deterrence alone can not keep the protesters at bay. But how long autocratic systems can ever hold still? Birgit Kaspar informed of Beirut.
Révolutions dans le monde arabe: Des lendemain incertain
(lexpressiondz.com / Othmane Siddik / 03.03.2011)
La Tunisie a la voie glasscase, l'Egypte a suivi, par la Libye imitée alors que nombre d'autres pays arabes se sont dans la engouffrés brèche ainsi ouverte. Mais la révolution peut elle-all loin sans tête pensant, sans organization?
"Paris has lost a lot of credit": An interview with the political scientists and experts on Islam Olivier Roy
(NZZ Online / 03.03.2011)
After 11 September 2001, Islam in France - up to the enemy - as in almost all European countries. The perspective was that of a "clash of civilizations", Islam constitutes a threat to European identity and is incompatible with the values of the West, especially with democracy and secularism. The revolutions of the past ten weeks of this theory. ... The supposed enemy is like us, he wants the same as we and our point All in all, even well-disposed - as the reception of Western observers by the protesters shows. But in this country it is not very willing to admit to have been wrong. Rather it assumes the protesters winding ulterior motives, the hand of Islamists in the game imagines that sought after secretly to seize power for himself.
discussion of Arab revolution
(rp-online / Martin Oberpriller / 03.03.2011)
At a panel discussion in the Protestant city of Dusseldorf Academy was the upheaval in the Arab world and the role of the West part controversial. While the outlook for Tunisia und Ägypten optimistisch bewertet wurden, gab die Lage in Libyen Anlass zur Sorge.
The New Arab World Is Coming, With or Without the U.S.
(Huffington Post-Blog / Cynthia P. Schneider & Nadia Oweidat / 02.03.2011)
The Arab world is marching toward democracy, with or without the United States. To be relevant to the breakneck changes rocking the Middle East, the U.S. first needs to reexamine its foreign policy and its narcissistic definition of its security. A free and democratic Arab world aligns with America's security interests. There is still time to change the perception of the United States as a place that utters sweet words of democracy but supports dictators -- as it has throughout the lifetimes of the young Arab leaders.
The Fabric of Democracy
(jadaliyya.com / Maryam Monalisa Gharavi / 02.03.2011)
In "Rogues", his 2003 volume on rogue states, Jacques Derrida looked to Plato's Republic in order to assess the Grecian syntagma of democracy as ‘democracy to come.’ Passages from the Republic referring to ‘democratic man and his freedoms’ hold special relevance; Derrida used it to examine the rise of Islamism in Algeria but I would like to focus on the relationship between clothing, democracy and Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak and Libya’s embattled ... al-Gaddafi. The aesthetics of Greek origin ... Largely as indistinguishable from perception and perceptible things ..., and did not come to signify beauty or adornment until the Relatively recent 18th century. A re-historicized rendering of the garments of despot might yield greater insight into the seduction and valor of democracy through its aesthetics or perception.
The military strongholds of the world
(bazonline.ch / 03.02.2011)
The Militarisierungsindex shows the most highly militarized regions in the world. The findings: The current unrest in areas of the Arab world are also from a military point of view, a powder keg.
The magic spark: The Art of Revolution
(br2 / Rainer people / 03.01.2011)
In ancient Greece, people spoke of the "Kairos" from the right moment for an event. Is this true for revolutions? The roll-wave in North Africa raises the question of the mechanisms of great upheaval. Paris 1789 has something to do with Cairo 2011 together?
Seething neighborhood: Europe and the upheaval in the Arab world
(dradio.de / Michael Striker / 03.01.2011)
Sometimes the story comes to the door into the house, an uninvited guest, and any status quo is zu Bruch. Und so geht es auch heute, wenn die von ihren Europäer südlichen Küsten gen Süden und schauen Südosten.
Clash of Civilizations? The end of a fiction ...
(lemonde.fr / Abdennour Bidar / 03.01.2011)
Goodbye Mr. Mubarak. But most importantly, Mr. Huntington Farewell! Let us remember the words that you use in the late twentieth century already seems so far away ... It was indeed "the clash of civilizations" is not it? The funeral oration of your thesis has been pronounced by the event start revolutions Arab, Egypt et Tunisie. Les concepts aussi doivent mourir un jour, surtout quand ils sont faux.
right-wing populism and revolution: law is quiet
(theeuropean.de / Benjamin Dürr / 28.02.2011)
silent = Islam critic: law is quiet
(derstandard.at / Benjamni Dürr / 02/28/2011)
From Islam-critics like Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Henryk M. Broder or Ayaan Hirsi Ali is currently not very audible. The revolutions in the Arab countries have shaken their world view - a response they have not yet found to the changing world.
Internet in the Arab world seething in the network
(sueddeutsche.de / Neshitov T. & J. Rubner / 26.02.2011)
There were no Internet revolution, the Arab in the last weeks of the world passed - but without the Internet, it would hardly have been one of them. Social networks and blogs have influenced the rebellion decisively.
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