A famous Arab author wrote … It is with relief that I will let one of the best known and renowned Arab writers and poets, Tahar Ben Jelloun, speak about the changes taking place in the countries of the Arab Spring. In a piece picked up by the press in a number of European countries, he observes that, in the first phase of this Spring, the talk was all of freedom and democracy. Then, “what no one expected happened: in Tunisia and Egypt, those who gained most from the revolution were the...