Publication

Presently in the Middle East, major political change is taking place. How dramatic and lasting this change will be is still anyone's guess. The international media, spearheaded by the Qatar-based Al Jazeera, suggests that the oft-dismissed 'Arab street' has finally found its voice; that the time for democracy has come, and the world has nothing to fear from the toppling of the old-guard dictatorships of Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and potentially Libya's Moummar Gaddafi.