Wednesday, February 9, 2011
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Democratising the Arab world
Planting a dream: "Once an idea has taken hold of the brain, it's almost impossible to eradicate"
The incapacity to dream is a slow death. Giant steps from self-empowering dreams. Popular sovereignty.
From Tunis to Cairo, "people's power" represents a watershed, an Inception in the making. It now serves as a fount of democratic streams with a fierce and determined thirst for self-governance by the oppressed across the Arab geography.
unleashing shockwaves whose political reverberations will be felt for a long time.
The agency that Arabs are assuming to unseat Arab hegemons. This agency is unshackling itself from a threefold dynamic: the fear of the Arab police state; Orientalist constructions demoting Arab agency; and Euro-American democratisation theorists' obsession with structure, culture and top-down institution-building.
Internet es la máscara de oxígeno que les permite respirar, y expresarse con la libertad que sus gobernantes les roban
Luchando por el cambio
El 68% de los árabes tiene menos de treinta años, y la mayoría no sabe qué hacer con sus vidas. De ellos ha partido el poderoso impulso de protesta
Se ha producido una revolución interior en las mentes de los jóvenes y esta, tal vez cueste más reprimirla con tanques y balas.
