The essential element to be mindful of here is the absence of non-governmental civic institutions, and, by extension, a free press, in almost all the Arab nations. In the Arab countries where civic societies and institutions exist, they are invariably co-opted by the ruling dictatorships and their acolytes.
The essential element to be mindful of here is the absence of non-governmental civic institutions, and, by extension, a free press, in almost all the Arab nations. In the Arab countries where civic societies and institutions exist, they are invariably co-opted by the ruling dictatorships and their acolytes.