Scholars of the region, like myself, are also recognizing that our understanding of Arab politics did not anticipate this wave of successful protest. Until the uprising in Tunisia, we thought that political change would be led either by Islamist forces or by a coup by a group of military officers – not by disorganized, youth-led masses.
像我一样的地区学者同样意识到我们对阿拉伯世界的政治理解并未预见到会出现如此成功的抗议浪潮。 直至突尼斯起义之前，我们都认为伊斯兰势力或某场政变或某群军官，而不是由年轻人领导的缺乏组织的群众将左右中东的政治变局。