Modern Arab citizens standing up to be counted

The political map in the Arab World must be sketched anew after the fall of Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and the demonstrations against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, writes the daily Dnevnik: "The simple formula with dictatorial regimes on the one side and armed factions of Islamist parties on the other is no longer the only option. Between these two powers, which have kept each other in check with tanks and suicide bombings, a society with an entirely new face has emerged. Today's demonstrators are part of modern society, they belong to the generation of bloggers and mobile phones. ... All of these protests have a shocking new element in common. Rather than burning US or Israeli flags, the demonstrators are waving their own. They aren't shouting Allah is Great, they're simply sick of thirty years of dictatorship."

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