FOREIGN AFFAIRS: How Islamists hijacked the Arab Revolution*

Just over a year ago, popular uprisings broke out in the Arab world, in response to a crisis there arising from the corruption of despotic Arab rulers, chronic unemployment, soaring prices and a stifling lack of freedom of expression.
First Tunisia, then Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Iran and Syria have been convulsed by massive protests demanding an end to despotic rule, corruption and economic stagnation, which have paralysed these countries for decades, but which had been blamed on either the Uni…

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