Saturday, March 26, 2005
If you live in the Middle East, and would like to get published in major US newspapers, start your article (any article, on anything) like this:"It's hard not to be intoxicated by the breeze of democracy wafting across the Middle East. An Arabian Spring, analysts call it, heralded by round-the-clock demonstrations in Lebanon, suffragists out on the streets in Kuwait, rare protests in Egypt, voting in Iraq and reform even here in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia."