http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Feb-20/207166-tunisia-prime-minister-quits-office-as-crisis-deepens.ashx#axzz2LGMjtnko
Not looking good in Tunisia.
I said to my class two years ago during the start of the Arab Spring: revolution is a process, not an event. The American Revolution as a process took forty years before we could say we had come out with a system along the lines that we had sought going into that process. The Arab Spring has a long way to go if it is to fulfill the hopes of those people who began it. The only outcome that can occur quickly is the derailment of the revolutionary process. We may well be seeing that in Cairo, Tunis, and Tripoli.
And meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia, women make an appearance in the Shura Council.
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