The Middle East: Remembering Democracy

Saad Ibrahim is the Chairman of the Board of the Ibn Kaldhun Center for Development in Cairo and a current Wilson Center public policy scholar.

This is a special moment in the long and tortured history of the Middle East. Elections in Iraq and Palestine, protest in Lebanon and violence everywhere suggest a region casting its hopes for democracy against the savagery of its tyrants. In this program, Saad Al-Din Ibrahim, a noted human rights activist, surveys the region and evaluates the degree to which real progress is being made in human rights and democratic governance.