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Creating trust to overcome the crisis - Salim Chahine and Samir Makdisi

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By Samir Makdisi, Salim Chahine
| en.annahar.com
Opinion Regulatory and policy reforms are urgently needed, not simply to permit the banking sector to overcome current challenges, but above all, to protect the national economy and serve the public good. by Salim Chahine and Samir Makdisi Source: Annahar Date added: 18 December 2019 Last update: 18 December 2019 | 17:45 A Lebanese woman holds up a sign reading in Arabic "in Lebanon, corruption is the basis of rule", during a protest outside the Justice Palace in Beirut on November 6, 2019.
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The political economy of the Arab Spring: searching for the virtuous circle

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By Paul Aarts, Samir Makdisi
| openDemocracy Verified
No matter how tragic the short and medium-term consequences of some of the uprisings, their outbreak might eventually lead the Arab world to enter steadily the trajectory to democracy and good governance. In a recent piece in The Washington Post, Marc Lynch argued it’s wrong to say that the Arab uprisings have failed. “Success or failure”, he contends, is not a helpful way to understand these ongoing societal and political processes.
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