Charles Tripp

The Many Paths of Resistance in the Middle East

If the consequences were not so terrible, there has always been something faintly comic about the ways in which the powerful respond to those who challenge and defy them. Their indignation, even rage show that they may be the last to give up belief in the myths of power they have woven around themselves. Those they rule, however, may have other ideas. During the past couple of years there has been plenty of evidence for this across the Middle East.