On 4 June 2009, President Obama delivered a speech to the Muslim world at the University of Cairo. It was to have lasting consequences. He’d been in the White House less than five months. Then aged 47, Obama had spent…
Tag: Arab Spring
The Arab Spring in retrospect
This article was published by MEED in May 2011 Wishful thinking will not help the Arab uprisings May, 2011 BY EDMUND O’SULLIVAN The death toll is mounting as the reaction to Arab uprisings unfolds. Champions of change are learning that lasting…