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Hesham Sallam
What Happens in Tunisia Stays in Tunisia
![[Tunisia's President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali is greeted by France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak , July 13, 2008: Image from Reuters]](/content_images/3/sm_BenAli.jpg "[Tunisia's President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali is greeted by France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak , July 13, 2008: Image from Reuters]")
Hope is in the air—or so it seems. The overthrow of (now) former Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali has created some guarded optimism among close observers of Arab politics inside and outside the region. The people of Tunisia have rid themselves of 23 years of Ben Ali’s rule, paving the way for an opportunity for meaningful political change in a region that once seemed so resistant to democratic development. The events in Tunisia also tempt us to ask whether what we ...
Keep Reading »Mubarak's "Mubarak?" (Part 3)
![[President Hosni Mubarak's sons Alaa (right) and Gamal (left) attend the 2010 World Cup qualifying playoff soccer match between Egypt and Algeria in Khartoum, November 18, 2009. Image from Reuters]](/content_images/3/sm_gamal3.jpg "[President Hosni Mubarak's sons Alaa (right) and Gamal (left) attend the 2010 World Cup qualifying playoff soccer match between Egypt and Algeria in Khartoum, November 18, 2009. Image from Reuters]")
[Note: This is the third in a series of posts titled “Mubarak’s “Mubarak?”” Click here to view the first post and here for the second post in the series] In my last post I argued that there are some signs that individuals within the opposition are starting to believe that Mohammed ElBaradei’s initiative to offer an alternative to Egypt’s de facto royal family is not working. Since then, ElBaradei announced that he is no longer attempting to run for the presidency, conceding ...
Keep Reading »Mubarak's "Mubarak?" (Part 2)
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[Note: This is the second in a series of posts titled "Mubarak's "Mubarak?.” Click here to view the first post in the series] I argued in my previous post that the transition to a Gamal presidency has been underway for almost a decade now. There are many reasons to believe that the president’s son has already established control over major decision-making bodies and is president in all but name. Passing on formal presidential powers to Gamal, therefore, will not ...
Keep Reading »Mubarak's "Mubarak?" (Part 1)
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With parliamentary elections only a few months away and a widely anticipated presidential election due next year, many observers have projected that change is coming to Egypt, possibly the kind of change that partisans of democracy can believe in. Looking at Egypt from the outside, there are many reasons to believe that a real transformation is in sight. After all, news reports from Egypt over the past few years have tended to focus on the deteriorating health of the ...
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Hesham Sallam is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine.
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