THE HAND OF POLITICS AND THE HUMAN SOUL: COMRADES OR SERVANTS?

While the Arab world certainly has a political culture of its own, there are many universal human truths that its politics shares with the rest of the globe, even if – perhaps - tensions can be more intense in this region than others. Relations worldwide between governments and citizens in the Arab world and elsewhere have been especially rocky during the digital age of social media and internet connectivity. Alienation from the state, regarded by many as ‘the other’, and a distant authority, have been disrupted during the digital age, and now even more ...


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