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As Tahrir Square goes so goes the Middle East?

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The hegemonic objectives of   the 1979 Camp David have rolled across the region for three decades, being   rejected and increasingly confronted by a growing culture of Resistance set in motion with the 1979 Imam Khomeini-led revolution.   Both 1979 events fueled myriad other more immediate causes   including those noted above and significantly inspired the current   Egyptian   eruptions, some of   the paths of which are predictable while the   results are unknown.

There are many other Tahrir Squares in the Middle East. One of which is   Al Aksa square in Jerusalem,   the eternal and indivisible capital of Palestine. It remains to be seen when or if Palestinians will revive Jerusalem as a   modern day resistance place name and whether like Tahrir Square, Egypt, Jerusalem will rise up in support of increasing cries for Palestinian liberation as the inspiration and revolution of   their neighbors in Tahrir Square spreads.

 

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Since 2013, Professor Franklin P. Lamb has traveled extensively throughout Syria. His primary focus has been to document, photograph, research and hopefully help preserve the vast and irreplaceable archaeological sites and artifacts in (more...)
 

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