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• Iran: Protests Continue, Mousavi Fired

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  Time reports that security forces fired tear gas and beat opposition protesters  who were attending a memorial for Grand Ayatollah Montazeri today.  According to one Isfahan resident who tried to attend the memorial, “tens of thousands gathered outside for the memorial but were savagely attacked by security ...
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• Afghanistan: MP Mistakenly Killed by Police

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  Time reports that Mohammad Yunos Shirnagha , a member of the Afghan parliament, was mistakenly killed in a shoot-out with police who were attempting to ambush a Taliban transport.   The New York Times reports that President Karzai has called for an  investigation  into the murder of his 18 year-old cousin ...
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• Moldova: democratic prospect or black hole in Europe’s landscape?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  Moldova is struggling with the legacy of Communist rule. “Grinding poverty, porous borders, corruption, and inadequate rule of law have contributed to widespread human trafficking, human rights abuses, and poor governance,” write Samuel Charap and Yekaterina Chertova.  The country’s problems are compounded by ...
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• Iraq: A Critical Year Ahead

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  Kenneth Pollack warns that “while [Iraq] has made tremendous progress in both the security and political realms, all of those gains are fragile  and could evaporate quickly if strained.”  Pollack argues “the mistake we are in danger of making in Iraq is that as our military steps back, our civilians are not ...
  5 days ago

• Afghan: Cabinet Criticism

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  The Christian Science Monitor reports that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is defending his cabinet choices from criticism that appointees will do little to solve the country’s problems.  Several of the new ministers have been accused of “wrongdoing, poor performance, and corrupt practices.”  Despite these ...
  6 days ago

• Iraq: Tensions Ease with Iran

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  Iranian troops have reportedly begun to withdraw from a disputed oil well in Iraqi territory that Iran occupied last week (see our post ).  However, according to Iraqi officials, the Iranians have only withdrawn 50 meters and refuse to return to the other side of the border.  Juan Cole believes the standoff ...
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• POMED Notes: “Saudi Arabia: The New Dynamics”

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  The Middle East Institute hosted a lecture by Thomas Lippman entitled “Saudi Arabia: The New Dynamics.” Lippman, who has been traveling to Saudi Arabia for over thirty years, recently returned from a month-long trip to the desert kingdom. While Lippman admitted there have been some “really bad books” written ...
  1 week ago

• State Dept: Facebook Chat on Human Rights

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  Michael Posner, the Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, recently held a Facebook chat on the administration’s human rights agenda. Dozens of participants submitted questions to Assistant Secretary Posner on a range of democracy and human rights issues. In all, Posner answered ...
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• Iran: Gasoline Sanctions Counterproductive?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  Debate still continues over the House passage of the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act (IRPSA). Jeff Bergner argues the U.S.  must “ compel”  Iran to negotiate through some combination of a naval embargo, targeted military action, a free leash for Israel, or crippling sanctions. However, Suzanne Maloney ...
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• Secretary Clinton: Human Rights Speech in Arabic

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  The State Department has released an  Arabic version  of Secretary Clinton ’s important speech on human rights this week. To read about the speech in English, please refer to our  previous post .
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• ‘Deep paradox’ confronts US foreign policy?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  Several commentators have highlighted the Obama administration’s apparent shift to a more muscular foreign policy, openly committed to promoting democracy and using military might to confront jihadist threats.  But over at Stratfor, George Friedman argues that the administration has yet to confront the “deep ...
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• POMED Notes: “Democratization as a Source of Tension between the U.S. and Egypt”

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars hosted a lecture Monday by Heba el-Koudsy about American democracy promotion in Egypt and its effectiveness. According to the Center’s Middle East Program Director Haleh Esfandiari , every year the Center brings in an Arab journalist to conduct research as a ...
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• Obama administration asserts moral and strategic imperative of supporting democracy

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  Analysts and advocates have given a generally warm welcome to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech this week, which made the case for “principled pragmatism” in promoting democracy and human rights.David J. Kramer, assistant secretary of state for human rights and democracy during the Bush administration, ...
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• Lebanon: Sleiman Meets with Obama

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  Lebanese President Michel Sleiman met with President Obama yesterday. Obama  affirmed  “we want to do everything we can to encourage a strong, independent and democratic Lebanon” while also expressing concerns over weapon smuggling. In addition, the two presidents  discussed  U.N. Resolution 1701, which ...
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• Secretary Clinton: Major Human Rights Speech at Georgetown

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  Secretary Clinton delivered an important address ( PDF transcript)  on the Obama administration’s approach to human rights today at Georgetown University. Reinforcing the message of President Obama ’s Nobel speech, Clinton affirmed “the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are not only the ...
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• ‘Principled pragmatism’ will govern US approach to promoting democracy, human rights and development

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  The Obama administration would marry principle to pragmatism in promoting democracy and human rights, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today, invoking President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize address to forcefully articulate a holistic approach that linked hujan rights and democracy to developmental ...
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• Turkey: Subtle Shifts and Kurdish Tension

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  Claude Salhani comments that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ’s recent condemnation of Israeli action in Gaza and the AKP’s shift away from Euro-centric foreign policies “ come as no surprise ” in light of Europe’s continued position of stringing along E.U. accession.  For Salhani, this shift ...
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• POMED Notes: “Yemen Headlined: Contemporary Myths and Empirical Realities”

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  The National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations hosted a panel discussion on the current political, economic, and security situation in Yemen. The panel participants included Ambassador Barbara Bodine of Princeton University, Dr. Christopher Boucek of the Carnegie Middle East Program, Gregory Johnsen of Princeton ...
  2 weeks ago

• POMED Event: U.S. Military Assistance: Obstacle or Opportunity for Reform?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  POMED and the Heinrich Boll Foundation hosted a panel discussion to discuss the role of U.S. military assistance in America’s attempt to maintain strategic interests without undermining democracy promotion and human rights. The event was the third in a series examining U.S. credibility on human rights and featured ...
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• POMED Notes: “Future of US-Egypt Relations: A View from the Next Generation”

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
    The Hollings Center, in coordination with the Woodrow Wilson Center, hosted a panel to present findings from a conference hosted over the summer by the Hollings Center and Egypt’s International Economic Forum in Istanbul that convened a select group of 25 Egyptians and Americans from their late 20s to early 40s ...
  2 weeks ago

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