Rumbles on the Arab street

Throughout the Middle East, as citizens have taken to the streets to protest a range of woes — rising food prices, inflamed religious tensions, and corrupt political leadership — it’s becoming more clear that Arab regimes are, as FP blogger March Lynch says, “on edge.”  Here, the f ather of 23-year-old Abdelfatah Akresh, who was killed ...

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Throughout the Middle East, as citizens have taken to the streets to protest a range of woes — rising food prices, inflamed religious tensions, and corrupt political leadership — it’s becoming more clear that Arab regimes are, as FP blogger March Lynch says, “on edge.” 

Here, the f

ather of 23-year-old Abdelfatah Akresh, who was killed during clashes in the town of Bou-Ismael, west of Algiers, mourns his son’s death. “Algerian society has been in a permanent state of moral revolt against the regime for the last four or five years,” wrote Hugh Roberts for Foreign Policy‘s Middle East Channel.”

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Maria Kornalian is the executive associate for the Project on Middle East Political Science and an assistant editor for the Middle East Channel.

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