With all this hype about ‘great Arab awakening’, few things have to be kept in mind. First of all, while it certainly is great, or rather huge, either in terms of the size of population of e.g. Egypt, or in terms of seismic changes it is causing across the Middle East and the world, this “awakening” is nothing more than a long-overdue reaction of frustrated millions caught forever in a combined grip of grinding poverty, rule of absolutist despots, and restrictions imposed by conservative society unable to find an answer to the changing times.
