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.

Further Reading

Volume 1, Issue 4

An Arab Path to Democracy?

A review of Unruly Corporatism: The Associational Life in Twentieth-Century Egypt, by Robert Bianchi.

Volume 14, Issue 1

The Deadlock in Iran: Constitutional Constraints

The vast obstacles to democratic reformism include basic provisions in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic itself.

Volume 19, Issue 1

Turkey Divided

Events surrounding Turkey's 2007 elections reveal a country with a vibrantly democratic political sphere and a society badly split over the role of Islam in national life.