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In just one year, the Arab and Muslim world has undergone a total transformation. America’s main nemesis since 9/11 is suddenly bursting with new political life, new opportunity and a newly defined will of the people.
It started in Tunisia, North Africa a year ago, when a 26-year-old street vendor decided he couldn’t take it anymore. faced with constant petty police harassment and no recourse when he complained to the authorities, Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, and with that one act overturned decades of mostly docile popular obedience under the jackboot of Tunisian dictatorship.
Suddenly the whole region was ablaze with the fierce yearning for change: Two-thirds of the Arab and Muslim population is under 25. People are young, educated, wired, connected and they want exactly what they see the rest of the world enjoying: freedom, democracy, dignity, jobs.
