The Spring Of Their Discontent

What’s Really Driving The Arab Uprising? Bridgewater Panel Suspects A Youthquake

Posted: June 13, 2012

By DOUG MANNERS

Panelist T.J. Fitzgerald, professor of Middle East history at James Madison University, offers his views as panelist Abdelrahman Rabie (left) and moderator Bob Bersson listen during a panel discussion about the Arab Spring and the Middle East at the Bridgewater Church of the Brethren on Sunday. (Photos by Justin Falls / DN-R)
Abdelrahman Rabie speaks to the audience as fellow panelist T.J. Fitzgerald (middle), professor of Middle East history at James Madison University, and moderator Bob Bersson listen during Sunday’s panel discussion about the Arab Spring and the Middle East hosted by the Interfaith Initiative for Peace and Justice.

BRIDGEWATER — Economics and demography — not religion and politics — are driving the Arab Spring movement spreading across the Middle East. That’s according to a James Madison University...



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