Marwan Bishara, senior political analyst for Al Jazeera English, host of Empire, the monthly show about global powers, and author of The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions, counters the perception of the "Arab Spring" as a spontaneous uprising.
EVENT: "The Invisible Arab", a discussion with Marwan Bishara of Al Jazeera, hosted by the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, takes place this evening, Thursday, February 16th from 6pm-8pm. Registration is required and doors open at 5:30pm. To register, click here.
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dumboy has a Twin in NYC.
Which is the Evil Twin? Both?
CheezeWhiz!!
Your paranoid schizophrenia is showing again!!
CheezeWhiz!!
Your paranoid schizophrenia is showing again!!
Martin
who knows what your point ever is!
I don't understand how self proclaimed "anti-war", "progressive", liberal secularists support religious groups, like the Muslim Brotherhood.
I don't understand the Red/Islamist Green Alliance.
The civilized world resists islamist terrorism that targets civilians world-wide.
jg, why does democracy have to replace Islam? As opposed to how Democracy "co-exists" with Christianity or Judaism in the west? I don't see it as an either or - look at Turkey or Indonesia.
During the Falklands War period Argentina was not a democracy.
re: Israel
Samuel Huntington was correct......religious/tribal societies always need enmity toward the "other" to achieve any legitimacy.
Sort of like how Barry Obama attempts legitmacy through inciting people against the 1%.
Bravo to that!
The only thing that "united" the Arab tribes of Arabia was Islam. The creation of Islam, based on a revisionist version of the biblical texts wherein the Arabs now become the "chosen people," was what gave the many tribes of Arabia the unity and a cause which enabled them to burst forth and conquer the whole Middle East. It's as if all the "indian" tribes of the Americas united under a single religion and were unified to conquer and destroy the European invaders,and even go forth to conquer Europe as well.
So, can democracy really replace Islam as the predominant force in the Arab world?
I don't understand. The same usual suspects who usually fight against "liberal secularism" in the West and Israel, are somehow surprised or disappointed that religious groups, like the brotherhood, are gaining ground politically in post Mubarak Egypt.
Martin Chuzzlewit AKBAR (is GREAT)!
@hjs11211
Really ??!!
LOL, uhhh.......that wasn't my point Prime Minister Gladstone.
martin
it’s called democracy. They pick not us.
REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT
Featuring Eric Trager of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Congressional Testimony – Wednesday February 15, 2012 (Yesterday)
House Committee on Foreign Relations - Subcommittee on the Middle East
“One year after mass protests toppled Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is heading in an illiberal, anti-Western direction. The sweeping Islamist victory in the recent parliamentary elections will likely exacerbate this disturbing trend, given the Muslim Brotherhood's theocratic domestic agenda and hostile foreign policy outlook.”
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