Modernity comes to the Middle East

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