Tahrir 5 Years Later: The Hurdles to Democratization and Arab Youth Revolts

(Before It's News)

By Juan Cole

A frequently met-with Western political and often journalistic narrative of the 2011 youth revolts in the Arab world is that idealistic young people came out into the streets and managed to overthrow four dictators, but then the essential Arab nature (violent, fanatical, tribal and sectarian) came out and derailed any move toward democracy.

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