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Nothing to see here: why the Arab Spring cannot happen in the West

OPINION: What were Westerners thinking while the Arab Spring played out? With special audio feature.

Fri, 18 Mar 2016

One of the more fascinating dynamics of the Arab Spring movement was its effects on Western observers. There was a palpable jealousy of the protesting Egyptians, Tunisians and Libyans.

The jealousy wasn’t drawn from the protesters' ability to rise up against their oppressors. Rather, I think, it

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