The whole situation is like if you have a girlfriend that you want to dump and she gets you the new iphone5 so now you can’t dump her!
The military conflict becomes more domestic and parochial, while the war of ideas spreads further afield and takes root in countries far outside Syria’s borders. This ideational war is the ‘Silent war’.
The Morsi-Mubarak contrast will eventually wear thin as people demand their human security. All 83 million of them.
Secularists and Islamists alike have long suffered under the shadow of autocratic rule. What is required now is the strength and courage to actively integrate and mix so that we can be rid of the corrosive prejudices which threaten what this revolution stands for
In response to the UK’s threat to raid the embassy, Nawaat, Tunisian leading collective blog tweeted: ‘If the UK storm Ecuador embassy we will storm UK embassy in #Tunisia for violating Vienna convention @wikileaks #assange #tnassenge’
A Lebanon-based journalist examines the possibility of violence spreading from Syria to Lebanon. There are reasons enough to fear the worst, but also signs of real restraint.
Whatever genuine grievances and demands for political reform the Syrian people might have had a year and half ago were trodden underfoot by this stampeding sectarian drive that the Syrian opposition itself worked so hard to foster among its own supporters.
Why a widespread analogy is harmful to fragile post-Arab Spring states and civil societies.
The first and most important casualty of the militarization of the Syrian uprising is the non-violent movement.
Egypt is mourning its soldiers and even more so Egypt’s future and the possible political implications.
