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    阿拉伯马歇尔计划

    牛津—两年前席卷阿拉伯世界的革命风潮的推动力来自自由、面包和社会公正的要求。但是，尽管革命颠覆了独裁者、改变了社会，但这些核心目标扔像从前一样遥远。事实上，阿拉伯之春国家面临的经济挑战甚至变得更加紧迫了，严重地影响着这些国家的政治前景。突尼斯和埃及的失业率几近翻番，整个阿拉伯世界…

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    崩溃的阿拉伯国家

    波士顿——所谓阿拉伯之春在极力主张阿拉伯世界独裁政权民主化并为之奋斗的人们心中点燃了希望。现在突尼斯、埃及、利比亚和也门更换领导人、叙利亚内战肆虐、巴林、苏丹、约旦和伊拉克局势日益恶化，很多人因此提出并期待阿拉伯国家的性质和前途会发生质的变化。但美国诗人艾米莉·狄金森笔下长着翅膀…

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    After Israel’s Apology

    ANKARA – After nearly three years of political tension, diplomatic maneuvering, and back-channel negotiations, Israel has formally apologize…

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    伊拉克梦的幻灭

    伦敦——二十五年前，1988年3月16日，萨达姆·侯赛因的军队在库尔德人聚居的哈莱卜杰镇释放毒气。那次袭击共造成约5，000人死亡，10，000多人受伤，迄今为止仍是历史上针对平民人口发动的最大规模的化学袭击行动。鉴于哈莱卜杰暴行、灭绝库尔德人的大规模安法尔行动和遍布全国的大规模…

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    阿拉伯妇女未竟的革命

    费斯—尽管中东地区的妇女积极地参与了2010年末开始的阿拉伯之春起义，但她们仍是二等公民，即便在群众起义推翻了独裁统治的地方也是如此。事实上，如今，不少国家掌权的伊斯兰政府比被他们取代的暴君更热衷于将妇女排挤在政坛之外。在采访该地区妇女的过程中，我被她们的悲观情绪深深地震惊了。她…

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    利比亚的反军队民兵武装

    纽约——一方面美国拼命想弄清去年九月致美驻班加西外交使团遭袭及美驻华大使克里斯托弗·史蒂文斯等四名美国人身亡的恐怖事件的原因，另一方面利比亚并未就此展开正式调查，而且调查可能永远也不会开始。利比亚领导人面临着诸多挑战——从东部旨在夺取中央政府特权的声势浩大的联邦运动，到以安全官员…

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    演进的埃及“恶魔”

    布鲁塞尔——12月15日，埃及宪法草案进入公投阶段。一年前，令所有埃及人激动的是，他们的国家宪法终于可以体现他们的民主愿望和希冀了。然而，他们将要进行投票的这部宪法更有可能将那些愿望化为泡影，同时，也使埃及的民主之路暗淡无光。整个宪法起草过程很是仓促，这一切都归因于伊斯兰教徒的绝…

  • ?Version=Chinese Newsart for 阿拉伯之春的群体心理

    阿拉伯之春的群体心理

    阿布扎比—1896年，社会心理学家勒庞（Gustave Le Bon）警告他的同时代人大新群体的风险，他写道：“必须就来自（群体）心理的问题给出一个解决方案，要么我们就会被这些问题所毁灭。”随着阿拉伯世界自发形成的示威取代有组织的政治运动，刚刚诞生的民主突尼斯、埃及和利比亚领导人…

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    巴勒斯坦局势

    拉马拉—要论仇恨如何引起旷日持久的暴力和战争，没有比眼下的巴勒斯坦更好的例子了。但全球政客仍然对这个问题虚与委蛇，而不愿直面它。最近在加沙发生的致命暴力事件只是生活在占领和包围之中的人民需要的不仅仅是停火、而是政治解决之曙光的又一明证：巴勒斯坦的独立从未像今天一样如此紧迫。巴勒斯…

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Islam and the World: Islam Series

Are terrorist attacks and suicide bombings a betrayal of Islamic teaching? Is the world truly enduring a "clash of civilizations?" Are the world’s one billion Muslims a monolithic community, or is the diversity of Muslim life the key to understanding Islam’s future?

Islam often has uneasy relations with what passes for "modernity" across the rest of the globe: separation of church and state, equality for women, acceptance of an independent status for other religions (other than as prefiguring Islam), a secular legal system.

Whether because of the perceived defeats inflicted upon Muslims by the outside world, or because of the derelictions of their governments, the past 25 years have seen a huge growth in Islamic fundamentalism. Many who see their countries as victims of Western economic and cultural imperialism want to show that they can do better. Thirty years ago, their pride sought refuge in nationalism. Today, they seek a sense of identity by turning back to the Koran.

Across the Muslim world, today’s crisis has produced inflamed discussions about the status of Islamic belief in this age of globalization. To open a global window onto these debates, Project Syndicate is publishing a series of commentaries by statesmen, scholars and activists, predominantly from within "the House of Islam." Edited by Clifford Chanin, Islam and the World displays the breadth and vitality of opinion within and without the Muslim world as it confronts huge pressures for change.

Contributing to this monthly series have been Jordan’s Prince Hassan, Pakistani nuclear physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy, Kuwaiti democracy activist Ahmad Bishara, Iraqi intellectual Kanan Makiya, Turkish sociologist Nilufer Gole, Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi, Egyptian Islamist thinker Fahmi Howeidi, Egypt’s human rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Indonesian modernist intellectual Nurcholish Madjid.

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