Nobel peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf came out ahead in provisional results from the first round of Liberia’s presidential election last week. While the incumbent president is unlikely to reach the fifty percent hurdle required for an outright win in the first round, her chances of winning the now-imminent runoff increased on Monday when third-place … Continue reading
Still so recent and raw, and nowhere close to being finished, the Arab Awakening has so far produced few in-depth, holistic accounts of what has happened and why. Robin Wright’s new book, Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World, chronicles the Arab Spring from a “scent of jasmine” in Tunisia to the … Continue reading
