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How Revolutions Fail
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A group of Egyptians who call themselves as ’Anti-Coup demonstrators’ stage a demonstration demanding to release of their arrested friends, at Cairo University in Giza, #Egypt on February 18, 2015. Anadolu Agency/Belal Wagdy A group of Egyptians who call themselves as ’Anti-Coup demonstrators’ stage a demonstration demanding to release of their arrested friends, at Cairo University in Giza, Egypt on February 18, 2015. Anadolu Agency/Belal Wagdy

The conservative right has produced some of the best scholars on the birth of revolutions, exemplified by #Alexis_de_Tocqueville and his 1856 book “The Old Regime and the Revolution”.

Mohammed Sayyid Rasas

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Post-revolution #Yemen: back to the golden age of radio
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A Yemeni graffiti artist paints on a wall in the capital Sanaa to campaign against corruption in Yemen on May 15, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Mohammed Huwais) A Yemeni graffiti artist paints on a wall in the capital Sanaa to campaign against corruption in Yemen on May 15, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Mohammed Huwais)

For 33 years, former Yemeni President #Ali_Abdullah_Saleh kept a tight grip on the media, imposing his own image and voice on the public, and prohibiting any other figure from reaching out to the people. He monopolized all media outlets by rejecting any law that would pave the way for establishing local or party affiliated TV channels and private radio stations.

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