The Middle East (general catch all)

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Thanks to a "lurker" for the pointer to this article which sets out to:

Five years since the Arab uprisings, a political, cultural and social battle is still raging across the Middle East. Tarek Osman, the author of Islamism, explores‎ the challenges facing the Arab world, and reflects on the conflicting factors that will shape its future.

Link:http://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2016/01/1...y-tarek-osman/

He starts with:

The Arab world is undergoing its most transformative change for a century. There are factors in this transformation that could plunge the Arab world into more disintegration, violence and chaos than what we have been seeing in the last five years. Yet, also within this transformation, there are changes that could salvage the Arab world, and usher it on a new trajectory of regeneration. Aside from the uprisings, regime-change, and civil wars, the key development that the Arab world has witnessed in the last few years has been the fall of the Arab state system of the past seven decades

There is no unified thread on the Arab Spring, although a number of threads refer to the Spring, either for individual nations or the region. One likely home is:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=17692