Intifada Palestine

Rashid Khalidi
The same mainstream Western media that habitually conveys a picture of a region peopled almost exclusively by enraged, bearded terrorist fanatics who “hate our freedom” has begun to show images of ordinary people peacefully making eminently reasonable demands for freedom, dignity, social justice, accountability, the rule of law, and democracy.

Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
it was in the 1970-80s that many of the Arab states born in the aftermath of the First World War were transformed into police states, run by autocratic rulers who enriched themselves at the expense of the common good. Now, the Tunisian and Egyptian movements have overthrown two such rulers, and the Arabs as a people have asserted their humanity and regained their dignity.

Sami Moubayed
With those three words, “Welcome back Egypt,” Internet hero Wael Ghonim, a Google executive and one of the champions of the Egyptian Revolution, expressed what is on the mind of every one of us throughout the Arab world.