The Department of State and the National Archives offered two independent screenings of Dr. Larry Diamond’s new film A Whisper to a Roar this week. Co-produced and written by Ben Moses, the film is a must-see. It offers a glimpse into pivotal moments of struggle, triumph, and frustration among democracy activists in Egypt, Malaysia, Ukraine, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. […]
Read more "Required Watching: A Whisper to a Roar"The Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) released a report today entitled “Moving beyond Rhetoric: How Should President Obama Change U.S. Policy in the Middle East?” The report is a series of short essays from experts in the Middle East and North Africa and in the United States. Each essay offers recommendations to the Administration. […]
Read more "POMED’s New Report and Democracy Policy in the Middle East"“Dictators are not good agents for change…working with them is not a good investment,” said Nadwa Al-Dawsari with Partners for Democratic Change, Yemen, at the USAID Frontiers in Development Conference at Georgetown University. Her comment was well received by an audience of development professionals: panel moderator Ray Suarez remarked – with some surprise – that […]
Read more "Democracy Promotion in Egypt"As protesters gathered by the thousands in Tahrir Square today, a small delegation of activists, academics, reporters, and policymakers convened at Freedom House to better understand the political transitions in Egypt and Tunisia. Nancy Okail, Freedom House’s Cairo Office Director, argued strongly for continued international technical and financial support for Egyptian civil society. Okail, a […]
Read more "Barriers to Empowering Civil Society in Egypt"“You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.” -Victor Hugo The Egyptian security sector raid on international democracy and human rights organizations working in Egypt has been widely criticized by the United Nations, the United States and the European Union. While the military has reportedly assured the United States that the […]
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