The Middle East Awakening

China s Resurgent Warlords

So no wilderness, no revelations.

Might a reawakening of voter anger be the ticket to rekindling interest in a carbon tax?

A spiritual awakening sounds better than breakdown, but I assure you it was a breakdown.

The Second Great Awakening was challenging women's traditional roles in religion.

In my view, what we need today is people getting up and taking action to reclaim the meaning of peace.

True, there is a neo Ottoman revival in the cultural field, and our citizens are eager to rediscover Ottoman life, culture, and practices.

According to the German Verfassungsschutz, the weeks of organisation before the demonstration and the riots themselves were amounted to a revival for the militant left in Germany.

But Egypt s internal divisions reveal a deeper awakening in the region that has its own significance.

It is based upon the observation that REM sleep in several mammals (the rat, the hedgehog, the rabbit, and the rhesus monkey) is followed by a brief awakening.

In the wake of the tsunamis, it seems possible that the US and other wealthy countries will rethink their assistance programs and, possibly, step up their aid to those most in need.

This year as the Arab world continues to awaken and reshape its existence, a vocal and alternative narrative is growing, taking stock of such WEF associated projects in light of Jordan and the region's current challenges.

Who lives in Syria knows that it's the country of nothing's going on except to hang out in old Damascus' cafes, but recently there has been a cultural awakening people are starting to organize their interests in concerts, galleries, conferences, plays, screenings etc. and Facebook is facilitating the process which is very hard to do in an inactive militarily controlled society.

A country that in the summer of 2006 had to send a million of its citizens to underground shelters to escape massive ballistic warfare conducted by a non state agent, Hezbollah, now faces an Islamic Awakening that it cannot fully fathom, and, with it, an ominous worsening of its strategic environment.