The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming … - Roger Cohen

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Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return.

Roger Cohen

The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation.

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