An Interview with Ziad Majed To get a better perspective on the prospects for democracy in the Middle East, GonePublic’s author, Noelle McAfee, interviewed Lebanese intellectual and activist Ziad Majed, who has been working with other Arab researchers and activists for the past ten years to elaborate a regional democracy agenda. More recently he helped… Continue reading Ziad Majed on the Middle East & Democracy
Tag: Bahrain
How to Link to the Bahrainian Blogosphere
Want to get a first-hand take at what’s happening on the streets of Bahrain and other parts of the Middle East, as well as the rest of the world? The meta-blog Global Voices provides an excellent way to listen in to the blogosphere in Bahrain and elsewhere. Global Voices Special Coverage: Bahraini Protests and Middle… Continue reading How to Link to the Bahrainian Blogosphere
After Nonviolent Protest…
As nonviolent protest rolls across the Middle East—now in Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, and Iran—we see governments convulsing and fighting back, violently, but in a way that shows their ultimate lack of power. Today’s New York Time’s reports on how the quiet American intellectual, Gene Sharp, took Gandhi’s ideas and compiled them into a primer… Continue reading After Nonviolent Protest…
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