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Robert Pelletreau, a former American Ambassador in three of the countries very much in the news, Bahrain, Egypt and Tunisia, has highlighted how difficult it is to predict where protests will strike:...
View ArticleA very clever Get Out The Vote film
From Tunisia, via Benedict Pringle, who explains: The equivalent of the electoral commission decided to restore a giant poster of the former dictator that used to be a landmark of a suburban area of...
View ArticleThe Arab Spring, social media and lessons for future revolutionaries
“The longer you can look back, the further you can look forward”. So said Winston Churchill, explaining the practical application of history to forecasting. That is why those seeking to understand the...
View ArticleHackers disrupt online electoral registration in Tunisia
The BBC reports: Hackers have briefly disrupted online voter registration for elections in Tunisia later this year, the election commission [Isie] has said. Registration on the internet and by SMS was...
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