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The President and the Arab Status Quo |
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Saturday, 31 October 2009 00:25 |
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It's time for Obama to turn his back on tyrants. Republished in The Wall Street Journal, 17 August 09
By SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM
As a candidate, Barack Obama pledged not to support dictators friendly to the United States. Yet despite this promise, President Obama welcomes Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to the White House this week.
This unusual goodwill—the president also visited Mr. Mubarak in Cairo on June 4—is sending mixed messages to all those Americans who worked to elect Mr. Obama as a champion of change. And it is disappointing to those in Egypt, Africa and the Arab world who hailed his historic victory as the first African-American president.
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Friday, 30 October 2009 20:43 |
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ICDS Annual Report on Civil Society and Democratization in the Middle East:
2009 Annual Report pdf Report by Moheb Zaki
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Tyrants Get Another U.N. Platform |
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Wednesday, 07 October 2009 00:00 |
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By Dr. Ibrahim, Geneva. Republished in Wall Street Journal
 In 1948, the United Nations recognized the "inherent dignity" and "the equal and inalienable rights" of all human beings when it ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Though this week's U.N. conference in Geneva claimed to stand for these noble values, the world's dictators were the real winners.
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Friday, 30 October 2009 20:41 |
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Read the most recent Civil Society Newsletter issue
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Democracy and the Arab world |
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Tuesday, 02 June 2009 00:00 |
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An interview with Saad Eddin Ibrahim
by Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe
June 2, 2009
 Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian sociologist and the founder of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies in Cairo, is one of the Arab world's foremost democratic dissidents. He was imprisoned from 2000 to 2003 on charges of "defaming Egypt" and convicted of a similar charge in absentia in 2008. On May 25, his conviction was overturned on appeal. Ibrahim, who has spent most of the past two years in self-imposed exile, was interviewed by Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, who prepared the following edited excerpts:
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