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   June 30, 2011

   Arab Spring Has Sprung

      Emanuele Ottolenghi, Standpoint

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   How's democracy doing so far in the much celebrated and slightly
   mislabelled Arab Spring?

   There are 22 members of the Arab League, which include such Arab
   countries as the Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Mauritania, Somalia and
   Sudan. The only six countries affected by the "Spring" are Tunisia,
   Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and Syria, in chronological order.
   Let's...
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   TAGGED: Egypt, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Arab League,
   Djibouti, Bahrain, Tunisia, Mauritania

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