[Arab Spring or Arab Revolution?] Drop the Orientalist term ‘Arab Spring’

 

By Rami G. Khouri:  … Every time I run into a Tunisian, Egyptian, Libyan, Syrian, Bahraini or Yemeni, I ask them how they refer to their own political actions. Their answer is an almost universal, “Revolution” (or thawra, in Arabic). And when they refer to the collective activities of Arabs across the region, they often use the plural “revolutions” (or thawrat).  Read More…