This House believes that Arab revolutions will just produce different dictators
Tuesday February 22 2011
Tunis, Tunisia
MOTION REJECTED
by 26% to 74%
Speakers
Raoudha Ben Othman
Speaking for the motion
Raoudha Ben Othman is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tunis. She's the Head of the Tunisian English Learning and Teaching Association and writes on education and politics for several publications, including Assabah and Al Chourouk.
Shibley Telhami
Speaking against the motion
Shibley Telhami is professor of peace and development at the University of Maryland in the United States and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a former adviser to the US Mission to the United Nations and the Iraq Study Group. He has served on the UN Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World and his book, The Stakes: America and the Middle East was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the top five books on the Middle East in 2003.
Kamal Ben Younes
Speaking for the motion
Kamal Ben Younes is Executive Director of the International Studies Association and Institute Tunisia. As a journalist, he has reported extensively on Arab and Islamic conflicts and interviewed a number of high profile figures from the Middle East and North Africa. He is professor of history and media at Manouba University in Tunisia.
Fares Mabrouk
Speaking against the motion
Fares Mabrouk recently returned to Tunisia to set up the Arab Policy Institute, dedicated to developing innovative policy solutions and reforms and supporting democratic change in the MENA region. Prior to this he was a business entrepreneur running a number of companies in North Africa, focused on mobile banking and logistics. From 1998 - 1999 he served in the Tunisian Ministry of energy and industry.
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