"We enter the university with pens and notepads, but from now on we will enter with machetes to protect ourselves."
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week: Brothers in the hood: Egypt’s soft powers and the Arab world
How is it possible for those who have lived in the lap of opportunism and are by nature predatory suddenly to transform themselves into honest revolutionaries.
The question riding on the chaos being played out – from the burning offices of the Freedom and Justice Party to the squares of Egyptian cities to the palace gates of power – is how will all this shape future trends throughout the Arab world?
A general strike will take place on Thursday, December 13, across Tunisia, a rare call, actually the third to be made by the powerful UGTT since its foundation in 1946.
What is unique and difficult about this new chapter in the developing saga is that it is the Egyptian people fighting each other.
At the end of the day, most of the political sphere disagreements are not of any importance to the ordinary Tunisian and they ought to be resolved away from the public sphere.
The National Congress Party (NCP) came to power in 1989, and since then it has brainwashed and desensitized the masses to the point of no return.
In Sudan, you don't have to be in the war zones to meet a rebel.
To the memory of Mother Berfo who has searched for her disappeared son for thirty years.
The opposition, the liberals and seculars at Tahrir need to avail themselves of the new spaces that they could use to mobilize people, through demands and slogans better suited to the historical moment in which we live and better calculated to have a broad appeal.
