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SHAHIN FAHROOD

Revolution under way in Northern Africa and the Middle East

With the things happening in the Middle East and north of Africa with protests against the governments I tried to clear some points and eliminate my ideas on paper.

Most of these countries had a big common problem, and it was dictators and dictatorship and just one person was on the top of the government for many years the another thing was development of technology in middle east countries, I was reading a article about use the internet in Egypt and realized 16 million Egyptian now use the internet and majority of them are under 35 years old and the Twitter and face book tried to support the connection between those peoples, their goal is to instantly connect people everywhere to what is most meaningful to them. For this to happen, freedom of expression is essential.

The peoples in Middle East looking for democracy and change but Democratic revolutions have two phases. The first is the establishment of democracy. The second is the election of governments.

Another thing is resistance against the change: governments tied to limit internet social media and news because they afraid of change and the wave of change.

This has Iran 1980 written all over it! The religious front will not sit idle and will hijack the movements and then you will realize what you've wished for. I know because I've just come back from that region and lived there long enough to know how powerful the religious groups are. The dictatorships were a necessity to ensure they will always remain moderate... with the dictator gone; they will rise and follow the Iranian model soon

Another thing is mass unemployment among the youth is the most explosive social factor propelling the unrest. In Algeria, 15 million of the population of 36 million is under the age of 30, bad economy is another reason, and Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world. Almost half of its population of 23 million lives on $2 a day or less....