Useful sources on the Arab Spring

The Elections in the News blog from the LSE recently posted a list of useful sources for tracing electoral reform in the Middle East. The list includes news services along with analysis and reports from various international think tanks.

Egypt Elections

Egypt Elections Watch has just been launched by Jadaliyya in association with Ahram Online, the Center of Contemporary Arab Studies (Georgetown University) and the Middle East Studies Program (George Mason University). This site has excellent introductions to election laws, profiles of parties and key figures along with maps, legislation and links to key news feeds and facebook sites(many in Arabic). 

Another useful website is Egypt Votes which aims to encourage quality reporting by young Egyptian journalists. It is jointly financed by the Department of Foreign Affairs, International Trade Canada and the German Federal Foreign Office. Again, some of the site is in Arabic. For further suggestions for news covering the Egyptian elections see the Elections in the News blog from the LSE. 

The Egypt Electionnaire

The Egypt Electionnaire is a project by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) and MICT (Media in Cooperation and Transition). It aims to encourage discussions about democracy by the Egyptian electorate in advance of the 2011 parliamentary elections. Users to the site answer 29 questions to match their views with the policy/ programmes of the main parties.

Another useful voter information site is Egypt votes. 

Elections in Thailand

Elections in the news suggests several sites for keeping up with news on the recent elections in Thailand:


http://electionsinthenews.blogspot.com/2011/07/thailand-elections-use-of-social-media.html

Egyptian elections

http://electionsinthenews.blogspot.com/ 

The elections in the news blog has been updated to provide a number of useful resources for following the Egyptian elections, including discussion of the state of democracy in Egypt, fraud and the conduct of elections.

Elections in the News

Elections in the news is a blog written by librarians at the London School of Economics. It covers cover key sites and useful resources for tracing elections online, as well as highlighting the way in which the web is changing politial communication. The aim is to cover a range of key presidential and parliamentary elections worldwide. The most recent posts identify several interesting resources on this week's US mid-term elections. Previous posts include where to find information on the elections in Bahrain and Afghanistan earlier this year.

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