Publication of the Arab Forum for Alternatives on social movements and democratic transition in the Arab region

The same applies to Tunisia with the eruption of the Mine Basin uprising in Gafsa in 2008, in Syria with the protests known as the Damascus Spring in 2000, and in Yemen with southern movements in 2007. [...] These included the reformation of state institutions especially security, the judiciary, and the media, the shape of the new political system and whether it should be presidential or parliamentary, and ways of initiating democratic transition especially the question of whether elections or the constitution should come first. [...] Dialogue between Islamist and secular forces in Egypt and Tunisia in the 1990s and the early 2000s played a major role in building relative trust between both parties, which paved the way for the Arab Spring, in which both Islamists and seculars called for the toppling of authoritarian regimes. [...] The third change, the prioritization of social and economic demands, became obvious since the start of the protests where protestors linked between political reform on one hand and social and economic rights on the other hand. [...] First: Social movements in the Arab region 1- Book: Looking for the light: Youths in the Arab region… hopes and outcomes 2- Book: Protest movements in the Arab region 3- Book: Civil society in the Arab region: Post-revolutionary developments and challenges .