After teaching in the Middle East for six years, I have learned to be very tentative in drawing conclusions about my students? identities and what they mean.
Most attempts to introduce and explain the ?Arab Spring? to global audiences use terms that are designed to cover large groups of people and what they think, believe and act on. So we have ?Islamists? and ?fundamentalists,? who are usually portrayed as the bad guys. They are opposed by ?secularists,? ?students? and ?moderates,? or even the ?Twitter generation.? People everywhere use these categories and, from them, generate conclusions and hope for insights. But as a non-expert expatriate living in the region, I pause when confronted with how badly even the clearest identities apply.
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