Daily Archive: March 5, 2011

Paradoxes of Arab Refo-lutions 1

Paradoxes of Arab Refo-lutions

According to Asef Bayat, if revolutions are about intense struggle for a profound change, then any revolution should expect a counterrevolution of subtle or blatant forms. The question is not if the threat of counter-revolution is to be expected; the question rather is if the ‘revolutions’ are revolutionary enough to offset the perils of restoration. It seems that the Arab revolutions remain particularly vulnerable precisely because of their distinct peculiarity—their structural anomaly expressed in the paradoxical trajectory of political change.