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Will the 2010s be the ‘wasted decade’ of Arab hopes?

At the turn of the 20th century, three ageing intellectuals with extensive knowledge of the Middle East looked back at the previous hundred years and published their thoughts in a book entitled Un Siecle Pour Rien (A Wasted Century). Revolutionary ideas, hopes and sacrifices did not produce anything but despair. Assessing the Arab world in the…