January 30, 2005
Iraqi elections and American mirrors
It will probably be some time before it's possible to get a good, rounded picture of what happened during today's elections in Iraq. It will likely take the Iraqi Independent...
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January 04, 2005
Voting under the gun
It strikes me as a bizarre perversion of the ideals of democracy that people should be expected to cast votes-- and then to concur in the legitimacy of the leadership...
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September 27, 2004
King Abdullah (!) on prospects for Iraqi elections
The BBC and other news media are giving much prominence to the views Jordan's King Abdullah has expressed regarding the prospects of holding timely elections in Iraq. Excuse me? Since...
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July 21, 2004
Women and reform in the Arab world
Another great issue of the Carnegie Endowment's Arab Reform Bulletin this month. This one's a special issue on Women and Reform. Almost all of the (relatively short) contributions in it...
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June 15, 2004
Carnegie's Arab Reform Bulletin
As I drove up to DC yesterday, I thought, heck, I should have given my friend Marina Ottaway a call, to fix up a lunch or something with her. She's...
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