Rumbles on the Arab street
Throughout the Middle East, as citizens have taken to the streets to protest a range of woes — rising food prices, inflamed religious tensions, and corrupt political leadership — it’s becoming more clear that Arab regimes are, as FP blogger March Lynch says, “on edge.” Here, the f ather of 23-year-old Abdelfatah Akresh, who was killed ...
Throughout the Middle East, as citizens have taken to the streets to protest a range of woes — rising food prices, inflamed religious tensions, and corrupt political leadership — it’s becoming more clear that Arab regimes are, as FP blogger March Lynch says, “on edge.”
Here, the f
ather of 23-year-old Abdelfatah Akresh, who was killed during clashes in the town of Bou-Ismael, west of Algiers, mourns his son’s death. “Algerian society has been in a permanent state of moral revolt against the regime for the last four or five years,” wrote Hugh Roberts for Foreign Policy‘s Middle East Channel.”
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