Bahrain’s chance for compromise
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From outside the region, the universal call is for dialogue and negotiations. Syria’s mostly Sunni opposition has been pushed to talk to the mostly Alawi regime of Bashar al-Assad; the Islamist Egyptian and Tunisian governments face demands to strike deals with their secular opponents. But so far most gestures at detente have been feckless or insincere. All of this is to explain why what’s been happening in the gulf emirate of Bahrain in the past week is potentially important. Two years ago a Read more [...]