RN Chairman Chibli Mallat in an op-ed for prominent Lebanese daily Nahar 9 April 2013 argues that a policy of ‘dissociation’ from the Syrian conflict by the Lebanese government is insufficient to avoid the spillover from this and other conflicts. Advising a proactive stance by the new government in exporting a model of nonviolence, which [...]
Zahra’ Langhi, co-founder of Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP), led a seminar 7 April 2013 for RN’s MENA constitutional advocates–by Skype and across continents–on the role of women in public life in Libya. The seminar is one of a series of discussions, initiated during a conference in Tunis this past January, for the program [...]
RN Associate Mara Revkin and RN Constitutional Advocate Yussef Auf, in an article for the global edition of The Atlantic, provide a summary analysis of the virtual absence of national security in Egypt and the attendant rise of violent vigilante justice predominantly carried out by hard line Islamist parties through groups they designate “popular committees”. [...]
RN Chairman Chibli Mallat in a recent Global Post interview with Lauren Maddow discussed the rise of extremism in wake of the Middle East revolutions noting the particular importance of Syria in determining outcomes across the region. He highlighted the difficulty of mandating tolerance constitutionally, stressing two essential paths to success in the ongoing revolutions [...]
Prominent Syrian intellectual and writer Sadek Jalal al-Azm was honored 13 March with the Mahmoud Darwish Award for Freedom and Creativity for 2013. Awarded by the Mahmoud Darwish Foundation established to safeguard the cultural legacy and promote the humanist values of the Palestinian ‘national’ poet, the award recognizes “….creative Palestinian or Arab intellectuals in the areas of freedom of [...]
RN Associate Mara Revkin, in an article for Atlantic Council’s EgyptSource, offers a detailed analysis of the complex dynamic that has led to the proliferation and popularity of Shari’a courts and vigilante security groups in the “economically destitute and politically disadvantaged” Sinai Peninsula. Noting the historical basis for informal dispute resolution, she highlights that the [...]
