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Uprising in Egypt
Contrasting progress on democracy in Tunisia and Egypt
by Alfred Stepan...Albania. But, for almost forty years, not a single Arab majority country has been classified as a democracy. Thus, if Arab-majority Egypt and Tunisia become democracies, it would thus be...
Essays
Tunisia’s election: counter-revolution or democratic transition?
by Alfred Stepan...Arab Spring. Having witnessed, and written about, over fifteen efforts at democratic transitions and having visited Tunisia three times since the start of the Arab Spring, I would argue the...
Deathless questions and other interviews
The Rubicon is in Egypt: An interview with Azza Karam
by Nathan Schneider...though you’re waiting for it to be “betrayed”! NS: No, not at all. I’m wondering what exactly it would mean for the revolution to be betrayed. It seems to be...
here & there
Arab public opinion in 2009
by Laura Duane...peace agreement.” Oddly, however, 50% said “withdrawal from Arabian peninsula”—make of that what you will. Only 6% say that Iraqis are better off after the war (up from 3% last...
off the cuff
Engaging religion at the Department of State
by Ahmed al-Rahim, Helge Årsheim, Pasquale Annicchino, Margot Badran, Benjamin L. Berger, Anver Emon, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Amy Frykholm, Maia Hallward, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Peter Mandaville, Nadia Marzouki, Melani McAlister, Sara Silvestri, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Mara Willard and Erin K. Wilson...promoting what the United States considers to be religious freedom overseas, following the adoption of the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA). After supporting religious actors found to be worthy...
The politics of religious freedom
Everson’s Children
by Ann Pellegrini...and practice of religious freedom in the United States. Christian dominance in American public life—while a truism—is itself not monolithic in practice. Instead, we might better speak of religious cultures,...
here & there
Misogyny and the Muslim woman
by Taline Cox...innately Arab, why is there such wide variance between Arab societies? Why did Egypt’s hateful “they” elect only 2 percent women to its post-revolutionary legislature, while Tunisia’s hateful “they” elected...