Reasons of Arab not Awakening - Reflections on Marwan Bishara's Empire
The followings comments are made on Empire of Marwan Bishara by his respected panelists on the issue of resurgence of Arab authoritarianism or the failure of Arab awakening. The program was hosted on 05 July. Here, I write saying that they seem to, however, missed the elephant in the room. I add few of other reasons which did not surface through the program but still wildly accept as the reasons of the Middle Eastern Issue. What is the Middle East Issue? At the heart of the modern issue is the individual grievance for better pays and better jobs. Then you have the social grievances for better education, running water, infrastructures and basic things like functioning sewage systems and so on - so it has to be obvious that when someone delivers these things in this region he has to be a leader like a Muhammad Gaddafi. As Rami Khouri in the Empire points out the whole region is more or less have following issues in common on the top of basic grievances;