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Speaking Of Lebanon’s Need For Attention

February 3, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

Michael Young wonders why everyone is forgetting about our own revolution 6 years ago:

Why is it that no one in the Arab world, or for that matter in the West, has been inclined to bring up that electric Lebanese episode as they watch events unfolding in the streets of Tunis and Cairo?

He proposes several answers to that question.