Larry Diamond (Stanford): Why Are There No Arab Democracies? From Al-Ahram, where we are in 2010: Collapsing Arab states may well be a pattern in the future if the key fault lines between and within these states are not boldly addressed. A review of The Crisis of Islamic Civilization by Ali Allawi. Where's our Mandela?: Singular, inspiring and resolute leadership is above all what the Arab and Islamic world needs. Issandr El Amrani calls for an end to all the calls for a "new Marshall Plan". An interview with Eugene Rogan on books on the Arabs. Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, author of Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective, on the malaise in the post-1967 Arab world. From Al-Masry Al-Youm, an interview with Jeffrey Herf, author of Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World. The first

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