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“Manila, Philippines. It is like everything imagined in some dystopian novel in real life.”

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I don’t often see too much positive coverage on the region where I was born. I mainly hear about bombs exploding in front of the Italian embassy, journalists being kidnapped, conflicts that have been going on for sixty eight years, or pilots being burned alive.

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I believe cities are like life cycles.

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In thinking about the Tunisian “revolution” and the ongoing demonstrations in Egypt, let’s not jump to conclusions. What happened in Tunisia is not a model for the region’s regimes, nor is Egypt the new Tunisia. That would be a nice, clean, easy narrative and a great story, but it overlooks the realities that distinguish each of these countries from the other.