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Wednesday, July 09, 2003

# Posted 9:11 AM by Patrick Belton  

CARNEGIE ON ARAB DEMOCRACY: Carnegie's Democracy and Rule of Law Project (run by Carnegie's Thomas Carothers, who is a mentor to many of us who work in or study democracy promotion), has the first issue of its Arab Reform Bulletin out today. Their authors are quite good (including, for instance, CRS's Kenneth Katzman, who contributes a sobering piece on the risks of SCIRI ascendency within post-occupation Iraq). Other pieces profile Jordan's elections to its lower house (pro-government candidates won two-thirds of the seats, Islamist representation is trending downward, and casework-focused candidates predominated); and a survey of Arab human rights councils (Egypt's is new but is born at a time of oppression of independent political expression; Morocco's is fairly strong and is led by respected human rights campaigners; Tunisia's and Algeria's are both menacing and attempt to discredit independent human rights organizations; Yemen's and Jordan's are innocuous and education-focused.) Much more, too - it's wonderful to have this Bulletin joining the conversation.
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