Towards the World Debate on the Democracy in the Arab World

The development of the civil society in the Arab World raises three fundamental questions: What are the political and social reasons behind the propagation of the term “civil society” everywhere in the world? Are there specific problems concerning the civil society in the Arab countries? If yes, what are they? What is the relationship between civil society and citizenship? Some researchers refuse to use the term “civil society” in the case of non-Western societies because this term was bo..