Archivo etiqueta «Conflicto social»
By Wadah Khanfar, former director general of the al-Jazeera network (THE GUARDIAN, 06/02/12):
While Russia and China were using their veto to abort a UN security council resolution against the Syrian regime, the news of a massacre in Homs came thick and fast. In an unprecedented escalation, the Syrian regime sought to exploit the international hesitancy to have a bloody showdown with its opposition.
This came after Syrians had observed for the first time in 30 years the anniversary of the massacre carried out in Hama in February 1982. It is regarded as one of the most gruesome … Seguir leyendo
By Thomas Carothers, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of the report Democracy Promotion Under Obama: Revitalization or Retreat? (THE WASHINGTON POST, 04/02/12):
Just after the first anniversary of the onset of the Arab Spring, the Obama administration announced in December an enormous arms sale to Saudi Arabia, with a price tag greater than the annual gross domestic product of more than half the countries in the world. The administration hailed the sale as a “historic achievement” that “reinforces the strong and enduring relationship between the United States … Seguir leyendo
By Lee Smith, a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (THE WASHINGTON POST, 03/02/12):
Aside from Egypt, perhaps no place in the world was more galvanized by the events in Cairo’s Tahrir Square last year than Washington. American policymakers and foreign policy experts on both sides of the aisle rallied behind the cause of the young men and women who braved violence at the hands of the country’s notoriously vicious state police to march for freedom.
The Obama administration saw its defense of the revolutionaries, and its eventual demand … Seguir leyendo
Par Peter Harling, directeur des activités de l’International Crisis Group en Egypte, en Syrie et au Liban (LE MONDE, 01/02/12):
Si le “printemps arabe” suscitait l’enthousiasme aux beaux jours, le pessimisme est désormais de saison. Dans les médias, un glissement sémantique s’est opéré du thème révolutionnaire vers un registre à connotations négatives, où le triomphe des islamistes, les dynamiques de guerre civile, la désillusion et l’impuissance figurent en bonne place. Aussi les commentaires donnent-ils la part belle aux clivages identitaires, au retour en force des réactionnaires, aux ingérences étrangères jugées nécessaires ou désastreuses, ou encore à des processus de … Seguir leyendo
By Sujatha Fernandes, an associate professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the author of Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30/01/12):
Def Jam will probably never sign them, but Cheikh Oumar Cyrille Touré, from a small town about 100 miles southeast of Dakar, Senegal, and Hamada Ben Amor, a 22-year-old man from a port city 170 miles southeast of Tunis, may be two of the most influential rappers in the history of hip-hop.
Mr. Touré, a k a … Seguir leyendo
By Omar Ashour, visiting scholar at the Brookings Doha Center and Director of Middle East Graduate Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. He is the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements (Project Syndicate, 30/01/12):
“Whatever the majority in the People’s Assembly, they are very welcome, because they won’t have the ability to impose anything that the people don’t want.” Thus declared General Mukhtar al-Mulla, a member of Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
Al-Mulla’s message was that the Islamists’ victory in Egypt’s recent election gives them … Seguir leyendo
By Frida Ghitis, a world affairs columnist, author and consultant (THE MIAMI HERALD, 29/01/12):
Egyptians are sweeping up in Tahrir Square after celebrations marking the first anniversary of the Jan. 25 launch of their revolution. In a few days, on Feb. 11, they will mark another milestone, one year since hundreds of thousands of protestors toppled President Hosni Mubarak, who had held power for almost 30 years.
One year ago, amid the euphoric suggestions that democracy and freedom lay just around the corner, the journalist Christopher Hitchens sounded a note of caution. Hitchens, who died last December, had witnessed … Seguir leyendo
By Michael Wahid Hanna, a lawyer and a fellow at the Century Foundation (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 25/01/12):
The fate of one man can sometimes clarify the deepest flaws of a government and of the society it rules. Today in Egypt, on the anniversary of its uprising against Hosni Mubarak, that man is Maikel Nabil Sanad.
Mr. Nabil spent much of the last year in a tiny, fetid cell in El Marg Prison in Cairo, where he went on a hunger strike. He was removed, under guard, to a hospital on New Year’s Day to recuperate. Last week he … Seguir leyendo
By Boris Akunin, the pen name under which Grigory Chkhartishvili, a Russian writer and literary scholar, has written dozens of best-selling historical detective novels. Under his own name, Chkhartishvili is an expert on Japanese literature. The article was translated from the Russian by the IHT (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 21/01/12):
On Sept. 24, when it was announced at the congress of the ruling party of Russia that our next president will once again be Vladimir Putin, my wife said to me: “That’s it. We need to leave. I don’t not want to spend the rest of my life in … Seguir leyendo
Por Wadah Khanfar, exdirector general de Al Jazeera y en la actualidad presidente de The Sharq Forum, una ONG que promueve reformas en todo el mundo árabe. Traducido del inglés por David Meléndez Tormen (Project Syndicate, 18/01/12):
Los acontecimientos del año pasado en Egipto y Túnez bajaron la cortina de un orden viejo y tambaleante y abrieron la mayor parte del mundo árabe a una era nueva y largamente esperada. Cómo lucirá esa nueva era es una pregunta abierta, si tenemos en cuenta los numerosos desafíos que los países de la región siguen enfrentando.
El viejo orden que ha … Seguir leyendo
Par Hélé Béji, écrivaine (LE MONDE, 18/01/12):
Tunisiens, vous vous êtes levés contre la tyrannie et l’injustice avec des coeurs vrais, vous étiez les Justes. Vous avez éclairé le monde de la flamme de votre dignité, vous étiez l’humanité. Vous avez fait retentir vos rues d’une clameur généreuse, vous étiez la fraternité. Vous avez ranimé le sens valeureux du prochain, vous étiez la bonté. Vous avez conquis l’estime de tous par votre panache, vous étiez la fierté. Vous avez souri par millions à vos visages divers, vous étiez la tolérance.
Le 5 janvier, à l’aéroport de Tunis-Carthage, vous n’avez … Seguir leyendo
By Aryeh Neier, president of the Open Society Institute and a founder of Human Rights Watch, and the author, most recently, of Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights (Project Syndicate, 17/01/12):
For months now, it has been clear that no peaceful, even satisfactory, resolution of the conflict in Syria is possible without external intervention. Paradoxically, too many Syrian civilians have been tortured, wounded, and killed to stop the demonstrations seeking the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad. The victims’ families, friends, and neighbors simply will not accept the Assad regime’s continuation in any form. So what will … Seguir leyendo
Por Yezid Sayigh, investigador asociado del Centro Carnegie de Oriente Medio de Beirut Traducción: José María Puig de la Bellacasa (LA VANGUARDIA, 15/01/12):
La crisis siria ha entrado en una fase de estancamiento perjudicial que puede prolongarse durante la mayor parte del año en curso. Presiones externas y desafíos internos han continuado y continúan caracterizando la situación. Es evidente que el régimen no ha podido sofocar la revuelta y es muy improbable que lo consiga en lo que resta de año. Pero la oposición –tanto en el exilio como el grueso de ella en el interior del país– parece … Seguir leyendo
Por Luz Gómez García, profesora de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (EL PAÍS, 13/01/12):
Ha nacido una nueva marca política: el islamismo moderado. Todo el mundo la celebra como un mal menor. Sirve para respetar los resultados electorales en el mundo árabe. Y para llorar lágrimas de cocodrilo por los errores del pasado (Argelia, 1992-Palestina, 2006). Pero este islamismo moderado que tanto se valora no es otra cosa, y así sería más correcto llamarlo, que un islamismo de sistema, esto es, un islamismo que ha encontrado, salvo en el caso de Túnez, puntos de … Seguir leyendo
Por José Sanmartín Esplugues, catedrático de Filosofía de la Ciencia en la Universidad de Valencia y ex director del Centro Reina Sofía para el Estudio de la Violencia (EL MUNDO, 10/01/12):
Los occidenatles tenemos una obligación de urgente cumplimiento: tratar de entender (no justificar) el islam. Por una parte, los expertos (los orientalistas) suelen presentarnos una versión edulcorada del islam que, según los musulmanes integristas, traiciona su verdadera esencia. Por otra parte, los medios de comunicación e, incluso, los investigadores académicos que se dedican a estos temas suelen emplear un lenguaje tan políticamente correcto que resulta contraproducente.
El ejemplo más … Seguir leyendo