Friday, March 25, 2011

Syria's Bashar al-Assad has been struck by freedom flu | Simon Tisdall

The fear factor that has kept Syrians in check is failing. Assad will have to move fast to avoid the circling political vultures

Albert Camus, were he alive, would have understood the upheavals sweeping the Arab world. In La Peste (The Plague), the French-Algerian author and philosopher explored through allegory the deep-seated malaise that he believed shaped and determined the human condition. At its core, society – and the body politic – was rotten and absurd. From Libya to Egypt to

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