Islam in the Arab Spring: do elections mean more religion?

Moderate Islamist parties rule the day in the Arab Spring’s first elections in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco. Now come the challenges of reining in more radical Salafists and sticking to the anti-corruption pledges that won them so many votes.

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Rafik ABDEL SALAM, Political Committee Member, Ennahda party
Zineb BELMKADDEM, Member of the February 20th Movement in Rabat
Jalila HEDHLI-PEUGNET, President, 'Think Ahead for the Med Tunisia' assosciation
Mahmoud ISMAIL, Director, Egyptian cultural Center in Paris
Barak BARFI, Research fellow, New America Foundation
Amel BOUBEKEUR, Researcher fellow, EHESS and ENS
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François Picard

24/05/2012 - THE DEBATE

Merkel's next move: Will Germany stick to its guns on austerity?

François Hollande steals the show at his first late-night EU summit but the ball remains firmly in Angela Merkel’s court. Her constituents remain torn between paying for pain they don’t (yet) feel and shouldering the blame for an eventual collapse of the euro.

23/05/2012 - THE DEBATE

Egypt's presidential poll: The revolution, Part II (part 2)

Fifteen months after Hosni Mubarak's fall, the second act of Egypt's revolution is underway. Millions of Egyptians are choosing a president in the first free elections in the country's 5,000-year history. Douglas Herbert and his panel discuss whether the newly elected president will have a chance of healing divisions while tackling poverty and fighting violent crime.