Larbi Sadiki: On the new politics in "Arabia"
The pan-Arab community which the military revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s failed to realise by decree or force, Arab citizenries can today construct through a democratic common sense of purpose.
This would encapsulate the common dream through transfer of democratic knowledge. Common tribunes, councils, associations and sub-networks become resources where democratic knowledge is invested as well as tapped into for the purpose of distribution and renewal.
Moreover, as far as the wider Arab World is concerned, democratic knowledge transfer would widen as other democratised Arab communities join in to further mobilise, network, and diffuse democratic know-how to other Arabs who assimilate, apply according to their local specificities and in their turn impart their own learning.
Grassroots activists and movements in acts of cyber-sabotage aimed at organising and informing Arab citizenries were the key to unlocking the bolted doors of the seemingly boundless power of their states. Today the paralysing fear of the security apparatuses of the state has dissipated. A self-affirming faith in civic cooperation and unapologetic demonstrations of dissent has taken over.
The extraordinary developments in Tunisia and Egypt during the first six weeks of this year, and more recently in Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere, have inaugurated a revolutionary moment in the Arab world not experienced since 1958. If sustained uprisings continue and spread, it has the potential to develop into an Arab 1848 says Muin Rabbani.
Charles Hirshkind, The Road to Tahrir - the anthropologue's report on how social media changed politics and politcal dioscourse in Egypt even before 20100
Samuli Schielke: Power, normality, revolution - another anthropologue's reflexion who wintessed the revolution at Tahrir in person on the nature of power
Armando Salvatore: The elusive subject of revolution
Waking up to what looked like a new dawn, and not only in Egypt, a woman on Tahrir Square, who had participated in the last phase of the revolution, said on the morning of Saturday, February 12, “I can’t imagine all this really happened: Who did it?”
Gideon Levi, the Haaretz columnist and editor: Israel must congratulate Egypt
The news from Egypt is good news, not only for that country and the Arab world, but for the entire world, including Israel. Now is the time to be happy for the Egyptian people, to hope that this amazing revolution will not go wrong. Let us lay aside all our fears - of anarchy, of the Muslim Brotherhood or a military regime - and let this great gamble have its say.
The pan-Arab community which the military revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s failed to realise by decree or force, Arab citizenries can today construct through a democratic common sense of purpose.
This would encapsulate the common dream through transfer of democratic knowledge. Common tribunes, councils, associations and sub-networks become resources where democratic knowledge is invested as well as tapped into for the purpose of distribution and renewal.
Moreover, as far as the wider Arab World is concerned, democratic knowledge transfer would widen as other democratised Arab communities join in to further mobilise, network, and diffuse democratic know-how to other Arabs who assimilate, apply according to their local specificities and in their turn impart their own learning.
Grassroots activists and movements in acts of cyber-sabotage aimed at organising and informing Arab citizenries were the key to unlocking the bolted doors of the seemingly boundless power of their states. Today the paralysing fear of the security apparatuses of the state has dissipated. A self-affirming faith in civic cooperation and unapologetic demonstrations of dissent has taken over.
The extraordinary developments in Tunisia and Egypt during the first six weeks of this year, and more recently in Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere, have inaugurated a revolutionary moment in the Arab world not experienced since 1958. If sustained uprisings continue and spread, it has the potential to develop into an Arab 1848 says Muin Rabbani.
Charles Hirshkind, The Road to Tahrir - the anthropologue's report on how social media changed politics and politcal dioscourse in Egypt even before 20100
Samuli Schielke: Power, normality, revolution - another anthropologue's reflexion who wintessed the revolution at Tahrir in person on the nature of power
Armando Salvatore: The elusive subject of revolution
Waking up to what looked like a new dawn, and not only in Egypt, a woman on Tahrir Square, who had participated in the last phase of the revolution, said on the morning of Saturday, February 12, “I can’t imagine all this really happened: Who did it?”
Gideon Levi, the Haaretz columnist and editor: Israel must congratulate Egypt
The news from Egypt is good news, not only for that country and the Arab world, but for the entire world, including Israel. Now is the time to be happy for the Egyptian people, to hope that this amazing revolution will not go wrong. Let us lay aside all our fears - of anarchy, of the Muslim Brotherhood or a military regime - and let this great gamble have its say.
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