Algeria and Sudan: The next (but not last) Arab Spring cycle By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz State building takes decades not years. It is easier to topple dictators than regimes, and it is faster to change regimes than ideas. Protestors need to agree and organize to make a good transition to democracy. State building requires review…
Read more »
Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Ghassan Rubeiz, Middle East, North Africa, OpinionAlgiers , Arab Spring , elections , Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir , protests , Sudan Sudanese journalist fined over column criticizing police New York, August 22, 2017—Sudanese authorities yesterday fined Suheir Abdelrahim, a columnist for the daily Al-Tayyar, for a column criticizing the police, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the sentence and called on authorities not to contest the journalist’s appeal. At an earlier hearing,…
Read more »
Activism, Arab World, Journalism, News, North AfricaAl-Tayyar newspaper , Arab Journalists , censorship , civil rights violations , journalism , journalist , Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir , Sudan , Suheir Abdelrahim 
Algeria and Sudan: The next (but not last) Arab Spring cycle
By Ghassan Rubeiz |
Algeria and Sudan: The next (but not last) Arab Spring cycle By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz State building takes decades not years. It is easier to topple dictators than regimes, and it is faster to change regimes than ideas. Protestors need to agree and organize to make a good transition to democracy. State building requires review…
Read more »