Conference: Exploring the Transition to Democracy in the Arab Region
Panel 1: From Autocracy to Democracy in the Arab region
Samir Makdisi: Autocratic Environment and the Initial Democratic Breakthroughs
Rami G. Khouri: Lessons from the Uprisings and Prospects for Democratic Transition
Panel 2: Arab Transformative Movements
Roger Owen: The constitutional moment in Tunisia and Egypt
August Richard Norton: Islamists in politics: The inclusion thesis redux
Ishac Diwan: The middle class and the rich in the Arab revolution
Sponsored by the Middle East Initiative.
Co-Sponsored with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy at the American University of Beirut
Location: Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, 4th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
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