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Strongmen and the fate of the American Spring
Tweet Following the fall of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and his serial sexual assaults, the tsunami of sexual harassment and assault allegations has become a fixed segment on the daily evening news. Like the Arab Spring, every day seems to bring the fresh fall of a powerful man in virtually every industry and sector of society who have been abusing their power over women by harassing them sexually with impunity. The Arab Spring brought down five Arab ‘strongmen’, dictators who had abused their political power for a long time. The ‘American Spring’ brought down more strongmen, and is still in its first year, the latest being the fall of Senator Al Franken,…
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What is rude for most Arabs … is not Trump’s Hand-gesture!
Tweet What is rude for most Arabs … is not Trump’s Hand-gesture! Lots of debate and media coverage preceded and followed President Trump’s visit to the Saudi kingdom. Anxieties and expectations filled the air. Trump, who has been behaving like a royal frat boy all his life, was visiting Saudi royalty as his first official overseas visit. Trump, the ISIS of American politics, the one who beheaded more than a dozen career politicians in public… debate, went to Saudi Arabia to talk about ISIS and make Islam great again. In this, Trump was simply keeping with the American presidential tradition of escaping to the Middle East, literally or figuratively, when there’s…