
As for Syria and Yemen, never had such devastation been inflicted on them. Those conflicts were far more destructive than the 2011 civil war that was fatal to Colonel Gaddafi. A small-time thief named Danny Briggs finds the unfinished epic poem of Black Orpheus, chronicling all the bigger-than-life characters that live and die on the galaxy’s Inner Frontier and the biggest of them all was Santiago, the notorious King of the Outlaws. The Arab counter-revolution, on the contrary, was unprecedentedly ferocious, supported as it was by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.ĭespite the colossal sums of money spent, the status quo could not be restored anywhere: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, whose 2013 coup d'état closed the pluralistic era in Egypt, still holds 60,000 political prisoners 10 years later, while his Libyan emulator, Khalifa Hifter, has failed to seize Tripoli despite the two conflicts he unleashed in 20. The wave of popular protests that shook the Arab world in 2011 was misnamed a "spring" when it was only the beginning of a long-lasting revolutionary crisis caused by the collapse of corrupt and repressive regimes. Subscribers only Smoke billows from an area of Khartoum, where fighting continues between the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces on April 28, 2023. Published yesterday at 3:45 pm (Paris) Time to 3 min.

Historian and professor at Sciences Po ParisĮgypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, allies in stifling democratic protest in Sudan, are now supporting opposing sides in the 'war of generals' that is ravaging the country.

In Sudan, the Arab myth of counter-revolutionary 'stability' is being shattered Column Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future Taschenbuch 1.
