Anustup Basu, Mute Magazine
Twittering
teens or absolutist ayatollahs, men we can do business with or loony
autocrats? The media's proliferation of polarities is a strategy to
fragment the connectedness of events and disavow western Realpolitik. Here Anustup Basu reveals the transnational composition of a Spring that is now an Autumn
In a column published on 25 May, 2011, The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman issued a pious call to Palestinians. In the wake of the Arab Spring, he invited them to learn from the Egyptian insurrection and adopt the ‘Tahrir Square Alternative' (TSA).
