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Modernity comes to the Middle East by LLang944 17 May 2002 15:01 UTC |
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Never one to easily embrace popular opions, a few weeks ago, when things looked so bleak in Israel, I neverthess-with my colleague/student wrote a basically optimistic piece on the rise of civil societies/democratic public spheres in Islamic/Arabic countries. This morning, the front page of my local paper, Chicago Trib, and op-ed of NYT seemed to confirm the analysis. In the first case, children of Black September leaders, assasinate by Mossad before their eyes, grew up to be leftists advocating a democratic PA. At the same time, there seems to be real questioning withing the Palestinian intellectual elite about Arafat's policies, corruption, incompetance, and above all, the strategy of suicide bombers that discredited the Palestinian cause and brought only death and devastation to the Palestianians. Anyhow, here's our analysis of the possiblities for modernity.... http://www.logosjournal.com/ Not copywritten, feel free to post to other left lists, best, Lauren
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