{"id":8945,"date":"2011-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brookings.alley.test\/research\/beyond-libya-activity-across-the-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:30:58","slug":"beyond-libya-activity-across-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"on-the-record","link":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/on-the-record\/beyond-libya-activity-across-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Libya: Activity Across the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As much of the world remains focused on Muammar Qaddafi, Ibrahim Sharqieh offers a look at the current situation in the Middle East beyond\u00a0Libya. Sharqieh shares his insights in an interview with\u00a0Patt Morrison of Southern California Public Radio.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Patt Morrison:<\/strong> First, let\u2019s look at Egypt, where there was the first real election with real choices in a long time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ibrahim Sharqieh:<\/strong> That is true. This is very historical by all standards. The people are so excited about it. The entire region is excited about it. It hasn\u2019t happened in a very long time. Probably over 50 to 60 years. So the success of holding a real election for the first time in 50 years in Egypt has been historical by all standards. And this is going to set a standard for the entire region. For the first time, we are getting real results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morrison: <\/strong>What are the new amendments [to Egypt&#8217;s political process]\u00a0designed to do?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharqieh: <\/strong>Basically, [their purpose is] to relax the standards that were set by the National Democratic Party in the past, that allowed only certain individuals that meet a certain standard [to run for election].\u00a0Candidates had to be approved by the parliament and the ruling party itself \u2013 the National Democratic Party. So from now on, we should have more free elections and many more people will be able to run for free elections as they wish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpr.org\/programs\/patt-morrison\/2011\/03\/22\/turmoilmid-east\/\">Listen to the full interview at scpr.org \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24405,"template":"","class_list":["post-8945","on-the-record","type-on-the-record","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/on-the-record\/8945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/on-the-record"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/on-the-record"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}