"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.