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    • Op-Ed

    The Arab Education Revolution

    Domestic and international attention is focused on elections and written constitutions in the Arab world, but democratic structures won’t thrive until education is reformed to teach free thinking, respect for other people's opinions, and citizenship.

    • Q&A

    Electing a New Egypt

    The most challenging part of the change to civilian government in Egypt lies ahead—the country's road to democracy is far from guaranteed.

    • Op-Ed

    The Death of the Arab Peace Initiative?

    As the tenth anniversary of the Arab Peace Initiative approaches, Israel's concern that a more hostile neighborhood is emerging risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy if the country does not try to find a serious resolution to the conflict.

    • Op-Ed

    The Interconnectedness of Arab Seasons

    The current uprisings taking place across the Middle East and North Africa are interconnected; the success or failure of one country’s democratic transition could have a direct impact on the prospects for transition in another.

    • Sada - Analysis

    Mubarak Regime: Redux

    The Egyptian military has emerged as the most serious threat to the transition to democracy; ten months after helping ease Mubarak out of office, SCAF announcements leave no doubt that it intends to maintain its control indefinitely.

    • Event

    Assessing Morocco’s Political Reforms

    • November 10, 2011
    • Washington, D.C.

    Morocco has so far weathered the storm of popular unrest and regime change in the Middle East and North Africa. Questions remain, however, about whether the reforms King Mohammed VI is undertaking have the potential to alter the political landscape in Morocco.

    • Paper

    Challenges of Egypt's Economic Transition

    The Egyptian transitional government's reactive economic measures are placing added pressure on an already unsustainable budget deficit. Combined with the maintenance of economically inefficient subsidies, the long-term implications of continued poor economic policymaking could be severe.

    • Op-Ed

    Americans, Put Away Your Quills

    The United States should remain on the sidelines as Arab countries devise new constitutions. While Washington can provide technical assistance if requested, it should allow constitution writing in the Arab world to be an indigenous process.

    • Event

    Will Economic Disruption Derail the Arab Spring?

    The Arab Spring has toppled three governments and galvanized change across the Middle East. But fiscal, external and labor market imbalances are widening, and both new and old governments are under pressure to deliver simultaneously on political, economic, and social fronts.

    • Article

    Egypt’s Democracy: Between the Military, Islamists, and Illiberal Democrats

    Unless the Islamists and liberals can find a way to coexist in Egyptian politics, Egypt risks falling into a new authoritarianism, with the military and the liberals undermining the democratic process to prevent Islamist participation.

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