Five years of ‘Arab Reform Bulletin’
Sep 10th, 2008 by MESH
From Michele Dunne
Reform in the Arab world is not the flavor of the month in Washington that it was in 2003, but there is still a tremendous amount of activity in the region related to political, economic, and educational reform as well as human and civil rights. Today the Arab Reform Bulletin celebrates its fifth anniversary as an online journal by relaunching in a new and much more usable, readable, and searchable version. We are bilingual in English and Arabic, as ever, and have a new comment feature to foster conversations among experts and readers in the United States, Arab world, and Europe on change inside Arab countries and how it affects U.S. interests, European interests, and intra-Arab politics.
This month we feature a broad-brush view of the political situation in Iraq by Phebe Marr, a discussion of new security courts in Saudi Arabia by Chris Boucek, an article on repentant jihadists in Egypt by Hussam Tammam, a look ahead at the Algerian presidential election by Mustafa Saidj, and a questioning of rentier state theory by Riad al Khouri. Have a look at the new ARB and let me know what you think.