Arab Intellectuals and the Arab Spring: The Silence of the Thinkers - Qantara.de

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Many intellectuals in the Arab world had already made their peace with the autocrats and dictators. Few of them made an active contribution to the Arab Spring movements. A commentary by Mona Naggar