{"638496":{"#nid":"638496","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Sudan\u2019s government seems to be shifting away from Islamic law. Not everyone supports these moves.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELawrence Rubin, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School has co-authored \u0026quot;Sudan\u0026rsquo;s government seems to be shifting away from Islamic law. Not everyone supports these moves.\u0026quot; The article written with Michael Robbins,\u0026nbsp;researcher at Princeton University and serves as director of Arab Barometer, was published in the \u003Cem\u003EWashington Post\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026#39;s Monkey Cage.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESome observers\u0026nbsp;in the West might see this as Sudan taking a step toward liberal democracy, recognizing that the transition remains delicate. But\u0026nbsp;survey data\u0026nbsp;from\u0026nbsp;Arab Barometer\u0026nbsp;\u0026mdash; a nonpartisan research network providing insights on the views of citizens across the Arab world \u0026mdash; suggest that Sudan\u0026rsquo;s population may not widely support these moves.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/08\/27\/sudans-government-seems-be-shifting-away-sharia-law-not-everyone-supports-these-moves\/?utm_medium=social\u0026amp;utm_campaign=wp_monkeycage\u0026amp;utm_source=twitter\u0022\u003ERead the article on the \u003Cem\u003EWashington Post\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34435","created_gmt":"2020-08-27 18:25:49","changed_gmt":"2020-08-27 18:26:48","author":"jpalacios9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"cohort","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/08\/27\/sudans-government-seems-be-shifting-away-sharia-law-not-everyone-supports-these-moves\/?utm_medium=social\u0026utm_campaign=wp_monkeycage\u0026utm_source=twitter","dateline":{"date":"2020-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"615430":{"id":"615430","type":"image","title":"Lawrence Rubin","body":null,"created":"1544817786","gmt_created":"2018-12-14 20:03:06","changed":"1544817786","gmt_changed":"2018-12-14 20:03:06","alt":"Nunn School Associate Professor Lawrence Rubin","file":{"fid":"234333","name":"2018 12 Larry Rubin.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%2012%20Larry%20Rubin.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%2012%20Larry%20Rubin.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3949259,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2018%2012%20Larry%20Rubin.jpg?itok=EtU43V9G"}}},"media_ids":["615430"],"groups":[{"id":"1286","name":"Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP)"},{"id":"597139","name":"International Affairs Alumni in Washington DC"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4268","name":"Islam"},{"id":"185708","name":"sharia"},{"id":"185709","name":"sudan"},{"id":"185710","name":"islamic law"},{"id":"169209","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}