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		<title>Let&#8217;s Evolve</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Let's invent our cultural revolution right now, without waiting, as a matter of urgency....  The great work of thought, reflection and culture must get started as soon as possible."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2011/10/19/lets-evolve/</link>
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		<title>The Orientalist and the Local</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An orientalist in pith helmet, jodspurs, and riding crop, carrying a manual in his hand, tours an eastern city.  He meets a local man  in traditional dress.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2011/09/16/orientalist-local/</link>
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		<title>Morocco&#8217;s Divided Youth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The excluded class at the bottom is frustrated and angry, but they are the victim of years of social engineering designed to teach them passivity and resignation. February 20 activists will have their work cut out for them if they want to connect with this group, but it represents the only potential for February 20 to expand its base and become a majority movement.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2011/06/28/divided-youth/</link>
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		<title>Is Morocco a &#8220;Liberalizing Autocracy&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In light of the constitutional reform proposal of King Mohammed VI, perhaps it would be useful to take a look at this recent article about Jordan, which calls it a "liberalizing autocracy" gifted at creating the illusion of change.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2011/06/18/liberalizing-autocracy/</link>
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		<title>A Missed Opportunity?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Arab Spring with its revolutions and uprisings opened a window in Morocco, for a frank and open exchange of views on all the essential questions. With a proposed new constitution in which things change only to remain the same, I fear that window is closing.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2011/06/18/missed-opportunity/</link>
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		<title>Morocco&#8217;s Early Adopters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a society is in flux and its conditions are changing, the old adaptations no longer work, and it is likely that those at the fringes, the outcasts and eccentrics, will discover qualities that had previously been shunned....]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2011/06/09/early-adopters/</link>
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		<title>Movements Without Leaders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At times the February 20 Movement in Morocco has been criticized for not having a coherent leadership or a clear set of demands. A few observations from Syria may provide some encouragement.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2011/06/07/without-leaders/</link>
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		<title>Germs and the Self</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are about ten times more "germs" than we are "us." Or to put it another way, we are a seething mass of germs held together by a thin tissue of human genetic material.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2011/04/21/germs-and-the-self/</link>
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		<title>Egypt, Too Big to Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Obama sees his job as preserving the legitimacy of failed institutions above all else, I wish he would spare us the high-flown rhetoric and betrayals of hope.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2011/02/05/too-big/</link>
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		<title>Western &#8220;Reforms&#8221; in Egypt</title>
		<description><![CDATA["We are working closely with the military... to ensure a continuation of a dominant role of the military in the society, the polity and the economy."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2011/02/05/western-reforms/</link>
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