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It is not by chance that I am not using in the title the much used phrase “The Arab Spring,” first used in 2005 by the Lebanese thinker of Palestinian origin Samir Kassir (2005,1). I am not using it because it brings with it a positive connotation and qualification that I cannot take as a given. Rather I would like to look at what is happening in the Arab world today only in a dialectical way: this Arab revolution, I firmly believe is open ended and carries with it both a promise of liberation and an illusion of a new era at the same time.
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Kassir, S. 2005. “The Arab Spring.” Annahar Newspaper, March 4, 1.
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Raheb, M. (2013). The Revolution in the Arab World. Liberation: The Promise and the Illusion; A Palestinian Christian Perspective. In: Cooper, T. (eds) The Reemergence of Liberation Theologies. New Approaches to Religion and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137311825_12
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