Adam Shatz · Whose Egypt? · LRB 5 January 2012
“The awakening is not over, but the heady days of the Arab Spring have come to an end. The counter-revolution, Régis Debray once observed, is revolutionised by the revolution.”
Longish look at the various parties vying for power primarily in Egypt but also across the Middle East. The Arab Spring movements brings to mind Fukuyama’s End of History essay, and I wonder what a non-Western and possibly conservative Islamic democracy would look like or if it could even exist.
