Tunisia

July 2011

Angry citizens want their nations’ money back and rightfully so. Banks should be curbed instead of allowed to enthusiastically facilitate the illicit outflow of money by dictators.

Understanding the Arab Spring

June 2011

Kamil Mahdi

Phyllis Bennis

Ben Hayes

Salwa Ismail, Shaheer George, Mehdi Lalou, Yao Graham,

Middle East scholars join TNI fellows in a unique and fascinating discussion of the context of the democracy uprisings in the Middle East and the way it may shape the region for future generations.

Who will reshape the Arab world: its people, or the US

May 2011

Tariq Ali

Phase one of the Arab spring is over. Phase two – the attempt to crush or contain genuine popular movements – has begun.

The “Arab 1848”: Reflections on US Policy & the Power of Nonviolence

February 2011

Tom Reifer

The uprising in the Arab world shows, along with being a textbook example of nonviolence as a mechanism of democratic social change, the crude results of a US policy based on dictatorship promotion.

Tunisia: a revolution for dignity and freedom that can not be colour-coded

January 2011

Mohamed-Salah Omri

The term "Jasmine revolution" does not capture the meaning of the Tunisian revolt. This was a rejection of politics as usual, of big and dirty business, of EU and US-supported dictatorships.