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Is the Middle East the land of the future?

Rhonda Callaway (Sam Houston State) and Julie Harrelson-Stephens (Stephen F. Austin State): You Say You Want a Revolution: The Arab Spring and the Role of the Human Rights Regime. Nnamdi O. Madichie (Sharjah): Is the Middle East the Land of the Future? It Is Not a Given! Binneh S. Minteh (Rutgers) and Elcin Haskollar (NJCU): A Comparative Analysis of Mass Mobilizations in Libya and Syria: Why a UN Backed Intervention in Libya and Not Syria? Michael Ignatieff on Bosnia and Syria: Intervention then and now. What's Left? Guy J. Burton on accounting for the Left in the Arab world. Are constitutional ideals alien to the region? Thanassis Cambanis on the secret history of democratic thought in the Middle East. Dani Rodrik on how the problem is authoritarianism, not Islam. The Innocence of the Media? Karen Grass on media and political violence. From nthposition, the Iraqi dream, investor's nightmare: A contractor despairs. Despite post-traumatic stress and opposition from two presidential administrations, former USAID employee Kirk W. Johnson has helped resettle hundreds of Iraqis whose work for coalition forces brought threats on their lives. An excerpt from Oil for Food: The Global Food Crisis in the Middle East by Eckart Woertz. Sheri Berman on Marx’s lesson for the Muslim Brothers. Evolve or expire: Tarek Osman on the coming clash within the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt’s tourism industry grinds to a halt. Victor Davis Hanson on the Middle East: All bad choices. Megan Gambino on how thy the next Silicon Valley will be in the Middle East.