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In fact, Arab societies are as complex as any other. The truth is that we are in the middle of a long-term process, in which changes in Arab society and the evolution of religion - what I and others have called “post-Islamism” - struggle to find expression in a political arena still dominated by actors from the old world.
Just as the Tea Party in the United States is a reaction to the election of Barack Obama that remains incomprehensible so long as one doesn’t take into account the growth of ethnic minorities and the retreat of traditional values among the younger generations, so the conservative wave in Arab countries should be understood in the light of social and cultural changes that are both irreversible and highly destabilising.
