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Lebanon, Sudan And Tunisia

January 15, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

You can always count on Rami Khoury to come up with an overarching theory of all events that are taking place in the region:

The common problem is that the existing political and economic order in the Arab world is unstable and unsustainable, because it is unsatisfying to a majority of citizens. These three models of change provide very different transformational paths that attempt in their own ways to narrow the gap between state and citizen

Name a country in political turmoil. Any country. And see if the paragraph above doesn’t apply to it too.