{"id":389,"date":"2008-09-10T18:29:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T22:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/?p=389"},"modified":"2008-09-22T00:31:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T04:31:03","slug":"five_years-_of_arab_reform_bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/09\/five_years-_of_arab_reform_bulletin\/","title":{"rendered":"Five years of &#8216;Arab Reform Bulletin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/members\/michele_dunne\/\">Michele Dunne<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2008\/09\/arabreform.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>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 <em>Arab Reform Bulletin<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This month we feature a broad-brush view of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegieendowment.org\/arb\/?fa=show&amp;article=21944\" target=\"_blank\">political situation in Iraq by Phebe Marr<\/a>, a discussion of new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegieendowment.org\/arb\/?fa=show&amp;article=21947\" target=\"_blank\">security courts in Saudi Arabia <\/a> by Chris Boucek, an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegieendowment.org\/arb\/?fa=show&amp;article=21945\" target=\"_blank\">repentant  jihadists in Egypt<\/a> by Hussam Tammam, a  look ahead at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegieendowment.org\/arb\/?fa=show&amp;article=21949\" target=\"_blank\">Algerian  presidential election<\/a> by Mustafa Saidj, and a questioning of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegieendowment.org\/arb\/?fa=show&amp;article=21948\" target=\"_blank\">rentier  state theory<\/a> by Riad al Khouri.  Have a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegieendowment.org\/arb\/\" target=\"_blank\">new ARB <\/a>and let me know what  you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[792,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-michele-dunne"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}