Mid-June 2012 marks the third anniversary of the Green Movement in Iran, and more than a year and a half into the dramatic unfolding of the Arab revolutions. Over the past three years, the Arab and Muslim world - from Morocco to Iran, from Syria to Yemen - seems to have witnessed more mass public demonstrations than in the entire history of all postcolonial nation-states combined. Where do Iranians and Arabs - and, by extension, the rest of the Muslim world - stand today after shedding their fear of brutality, risking everything for a better, yet uncertain, future for themselves and their children? Four dictators have fallen in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Libya, but their emancipated people...
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