North Africa

    • Research

    The Obama Administration and Islamist Parties: Any Hope of Turning a New Page?

    • Mustapha al-Khalfi
    • December 05, 2008

    U.S. policy toward moderate Islamist movements has been inconsistent. The hope for a tangible change often clashes with a complex legacy. This in turn gives the impression that all options have been exhausted, and thus strengthens the choice of avoiding dealing with the Islamist movements. However, U.S. progress in the Middle East hinges on abandoning this uncertainty.

    • Research

    The White President in the Black House

    • Elias Khoury
    • December 05, 2008

    What inspired the political enthusiasm for Obama, especially among the youth? In order to understand Obama’s rise to power, we have to view it in two contexts. The first?the disastrous policies of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. The second context is the resurrection of the centrist liberal trend in the Democratic Party.

    • Research

    What the Arab Intellectual Wants From Obama

    • Abdel Hussein Shaban
    • December 05, 2008

    On the heels of their landslide victory in the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party will face major challenges, particularly in the Middle East, which will test the President-elect’s ability to bypass his predecessor’s disastrous policies, the worst the region has ever seen.

    • Commentary

    The Baby, the Bathwater, and the Freedom Agenda in the Middle East

    In reassessing how to secure U. S. interests while stabilizing the Middle East, the new U.S. administration might well decide to postpone or even repudiate democracy promotion. The new administration should incorporate lessons from less publicized cases to help support democracy in the Middle East more effectively.

    • Commentary

    Losing on the Battlefield of the Mind

    Just as Guantánamo's legal and geographic isolation from the United States denies its prisoners recourse to the American judicial system, it also denies its military administrators the benefits of the most current research on how to de-radicalize prisoners and reintegrate them into society.

    • Sada - Analysis

    Tunisian National Solidarity Fund as an Alternative Model

    The National Solidarity Fund has succeeded in reducing poverty and building a culture of solidarity, despite limited political participation.

    • Sada - Analysis

    Morocco: Modern Politics or the Politics of Modernity?

    The new Party for Authenticity and Modernity presents itself as an innovative alternative to the Islamist Party of Justice and Development, but its modus operandi is far from new.

    • Sada - Analysis

    Qaddafi’s Old Theories Facing New Realities

    • Ronald Bruce St John
    • December 02, 2008

    Qaddafi's recent calls to dismantle most of the Libyan government are stretching his 1970s ideology farther than ever before.

    • Sada - Analysis

    Egypt's Privatization Initiative Raises Questions

    A new plan to privatize state enterprises and distribute shares to citizens reflects little awareness of the problems of mass privatization.

    • Commentary

    A Way Out of Guantánamo

    One of President-elect Barack Obama's top priorities will be to rethink the "war on terror" from the ground up. That means following through on his campaign promises to close the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo, which would be a major symbolic achievement. Transparency, due process, and legality are some of the strongest weapons in the struggle against violent extremism.

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