Political Reform in the Arab World

Fresh Air

Published July 20, 2006 at 11:00 AM EDT

Julia Choucair is an associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the deputy editor of the Carnegie's e-monthly, the Arab Reform Bulletin.

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