Arabs and Democracy: A Record of Failure

Issue Date July 2000
Volume 11
Issue 3
Page Numbers 58-68
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Democracy is spreading everywhere except in the Arab world. Arab elections are an immense masquerade. Corrupt dictatorships seek to stifle freedom of thought and to control the flow of information.

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