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slam and Politics 09 Feb 2012, NewAgeIslam.Com Political Prospects after the Arab Spring At a Crossroads By Elias Khoury
	The triumph of the Islamist parties in the first democratic elections one year after the Arab Spring can be attributed primarily to their "politics of identity", a simplification of politics that reduces political action to ideological or religious slogans and is hence not equipped to deal with the crisis of democratic transformation in the countries in question. One option is the nationalist and democratic variant favoured by the revolutionary forces, the activists of Tahrir Square and similar "scenes of revolution" in other Arab countries. The other option would be a return to dictatorship by a different name. -- Elias Khoury

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