Inspired by their Tunisian soul mates, Egyptian demonstrators have adapted the same slogans from the original French – “Mubarak, degage,” or “Mubarak, push off” – and have used the same technologies, Twitter and Facebook.

The question is whether the fire of the Tunisian revolution will take hold in the region, or be rapidly extinguished by formidable police power. Will Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution prove to be the Arab region’s “Gdansk moment”– the birth of the Polish Solidarity trade union movement on Aug. 31, 1980 that set off a chain… Read More…