TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Marina Nemat:

Ms. Eltahawy writes that demands for freedom and dignity fuel the protests in Egypt. The people of Iran demanded the same in 1979. She speaks about the success of the movement in Tunisia and the fleeing of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the Tunisian dictator. After the shah fled Iran, the country had something that almost resembled democracy for about a year, until the new regime established itself and the crackdowns and arrests of dissidents began