Three years after the Arab Spring began, the contagious revolutionary fervor has faded as successor regimes across North Africa failed to deliver quick or lasting improvements in living standards, the quality of life and governance.
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Feb. 26, 2014, 1:54 p.m.
A.Kadir Yildirim is a fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute. His main research interests include politics and religion, political Islam, the politics of the Middle East and Turkish politics. Yildirim’s recently published book, “Muslim Democratic Parties in …
Julie Fette, Ph.D., is a Baker Institute Rice faculty scholar and an associate professor of French studies at Rice University. Her research interests include xenophobia, immigration, gender, memory, public apology and interdisciplinarity. She authored the monograph “Exclusions: Practicing Prejudice in …
