Donald Macintyre
For decades, pundits, including those in the Middle East itself, have talked airily about the Arab "street". It is a convenient if somewhat patronising term, of course – a necessary nod to the fact that there are peoples in the region as well as regimes. But it has also been sometimes used to conjure the notion of a homogeneous, poorly educated, restive mass whose true feelings, such as they are, can be grasped only by some form of almost mystical osmosis; and one prey to seduction by extremists without the firm hand of a strong ruler.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/donald-macintyre/donald-macintyre-the-arab-street-is-more-complex-than-we-grasp-2202398.html
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