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Bad priorities in the Arab world.(Other Countries)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Bad Priorities in the Arab World Tamara Cofman Wittes, "The Promise of Arab Liberalism" Policy Review. July 2004 (policyreview.org)
Change in the Arab world, Brookings Institution fellow Tamara Cofman Wittes believes, must come from the grass roots rather than existing government structures. U.S. programs such as the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and the National Endowment for Democracy, however, focus on top-down approaches such as working with existing governments, rather than the hard work of building civil society.
An analysis of MEPI spending indicates that a disproportionately large percentage of funding has been allocated to "already overbearing government bureaucracies." The most disheartening effect of these spending pat terns, Cofman Wittes writes, is that it "makes U.S. assistance even more supportive of the ...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire January 13, 2004 700+ words
...Desk Contact: Tamara Cofman Wittes of the Saban Center...has appointed Tamara Cofman Wittes, an expert on Middle...democratization in the Arab world and the challenge of...importance of reform in the Arab world-not just as a noble...
- Freedom's Unsteady March.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Middle East Rhodes, Fred July 1, 2008 700+ words
...FREEDOM'S UNSTEADY MARCH by Tamara Cofman Wittes published by Brookings Institution Press...hardback [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tamara Cofman Wittes argues that the promotion of democracy in the Arab world remains an essential component of any...
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- News wire article from: Knight Ridder Washington Bureau (Washington, DC) January 26, 2006 700+ words
...END HERE) "In a more immediate, near-term sense, it's dismaying, it has to be, for the prospects for peace," said Tamara Cofman Wittes, a Brookings Institution expert on political reform in the Arab world. But the Palestinian ele
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- News wire article from: Knight Ridder Washington Bureau (Washington, DC) June 8, 2005 700+ words
...proceeding in many places across the Arab world, just as President Bush and his...struggling with," said Tamara Cofman Wittes, an expert on Arab reform at the...Bush's push for democracy in the Arab world _ it's his No. 1 foreign policy...
- Attacks by Israel, U.S. will likely fuel perception of war on Islam.
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder Washington Bureau (Washington, DC) May 19, 2004 700+ words
...Israel 55 years to create the hatred and enmity with the Arab world. But it took Bush one year to create the same level...Palestinian refugees to return to their former homes, said Tamara Cofman Wittes of the Brookings Institution, a moderate-liberal Washington...
- Attacks by Israel, U.S. will likely fuel perception of war on Islam.(Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Strobel, Warren P. Landay, Jonathan S. May 19, 2004 700+ words
...Israel 55 years to create the hatred and enmity with the Arab world. But it took Bush one year to create the same level...Palestinian refugees to return to their former homes, said Tamara Cofman Wittes of the Brookings Institution, a moderate-liberal Washington...
- Social policy in the Arab world: the search for social justice.(Essay)
- Magazine article from: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) Ismael, Jacqueline S. Ismael, Shereen T. March 22, 2008 700+ words
...in particular, representations of the Arab world tend to be unsympathetic at best, and...The subject of social justice in the Arab world in particular conjures up images of repression...welfare) engaged with people from the Arab world. Engagement with the Arab world ...
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The Arab World (Series). 6 videocassettes or 6 DVDs. color. 38 min...Schlessinger Media. 2005. $29.95 ea. Includes: The Arab World: Ancient Cities of the Arab World, Vol. 1 (ISBN 1-4171-0242-X/ISBN 1-4171-0248...
- BBC to air 'Arab World Direct'.
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...diversity and everyday realities of the Arab world to a global audience, according to its...based producers. Several episodes of Arab World Direct, to be hosted by Shahnaz Pakravan...joined hands with Al Arabiya for the Arab World Direct project. The one-and-a...
- Wither the Arab world?
- Magazine article from: Social Justice Yachir, Faysal March 22, 1996 700+ words
Introduction: What Is the Arab World? Let us begin with a naive question: What is the Arab world? The most common answer is that it is a...are left with a very complex picture. The Arab world has a common language, but if written Arabic...
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