Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Mubarak's propagandist is qualified to speak about the Arab spring?

Ahmet, in Tunisia, sent me this: "Asad....How fitting that Brandeis University hosts this chief Mubarak propagandist and apologist to speak and lecture about Arab uprisings-- the former director of the Ahram Center, Abdel Monem Said. And of course he is there to comfort them about Camp David: "A two-month teaching stint in Brandeis University gave me the opportunity to give and attend lectures in Boston, Washington, New York and Chicago. Many of these had to do with the spate of revolutions in our part of the world. Everywhere I went, I found people wondering how the Arab Spring would influence Arab-Israeli relations. But for me the more pertinent question is how the Arab Spring would turn out; namely, whether we'll sail smoothly towards democracy or get shipwrecked in high seas.""