The nightmare we called the “Arab Spring”
NOVANEWS
By Nureddin Sabir
Editor, Redress Information & Analysis
The so-called “Arab Spring” has turned into a deep winter and a recurring nightmare from which there appears to be no escape.
With the exception of Tunisia – the cradle of the “Arab Spring” – which has settled into a precarious stability after the elections of November 2014, everywhere else is in political turmoil or bloody conflict.
In Egypt, the hope and euphoria unleashed by the 25 January 2011 revolution have been well and truly dashed, thanks to the Muslim Brotherhood’s push to monopolise power and turn Egypt into an Islamic state, and the backlash this has produced.
Yemen is in turmoil, and now more than ever is teetering on the brink of civil war, with Sunni tribes and al-Qaeda terrorists on the one hand and S...