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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs w/ Elizabeth Thompson

Guerrilla History

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Book Review - A History of the Arab Spring

Atoya: My first motive was to offer a history to local activists, o of the civilian heroes in their own history that they'd never learned about. I had a more academic interest, if you will, and maybe a midde interest in that the story i discovered as i researched the history of the arab congress in 19 20,. And what made me particularly interested is how it was that religious leaders would have consented a hundred years ago to creating and founding a state that was by all means secular and not islamic even though they themselves were moslem leaders.

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