Two Faces of Revolution
Two young men have played a major role in igniting the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt: Mohammed Bouazizi and Khaled Said. According to Linda Herrera their evocative if tragic deaths speak reams about the erosion of rights and accountability under decades of corrupt dictatorship, about the rabid assault on people’s dignity. They remind us of the desperate need to restore a political order that is just and an economic order that is fair.