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'If revolution existed in pill form, I would take one every day'. The perfume of freedom hung in the air of the streets and cafes where suddenly everyone was talking politics for the first time in their lives. (Photo: Koert Debeuf)

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A personal view from on the ground in Damascus

"If revolution existed in pill form, I would take one every day". I cannot find whoever said this, but it is true that few moments are as beautiful as revolutions, and especially the first days and weeks after the fall of a dictator.

Many experienced this after the fall of the Berlin Wall. I got to experience it in Egypt, Tunisia,...

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Koert Debeuf is professor of Middle East at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), and chair of the board of EUobserver.

'If revolution existed in pill form, I would take one every day'. The perfume of freedom hung in the air of the streets and cafes where suddenly everyone was talking politics for the first time in their lives. (Photo: Koert Debeuf)

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Koert Debeuf is professor of Middle East at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), and chair of the board of EUobserver.

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