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- Title: Science and the Arab Spring (Perspectives)
- Author : Issues in Science and Technology
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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As we all know, this has been the "Arab Spring." Ordinary citizens have toppled autocrats and still battle dictators, armed with little more than their convictions. Ultimately, they can not be denied, for as Victor Hugo has said: "No army can defeat an idea whose time has come." And freedom, human rights, and democracy are ideas whose time has come for even the most remote corners of the globe. Sparked by the successes of Tunisia and Egypt, the people speak. From the Syrian demonstrators of Damascus and Deraa to the embattled Libyan defenders of the encircled Misrata to the chanting Yemeni crowds in Sanaa, they are the embodiment of the unconquerable spirit described by William Ernest Henley's "Invictus":