Onda Merlin Comunitaria interviewed Carmen Ruiz Bravo-Villasante, a professor of Literature and Modern Arab Thinking from the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid, Spain. She spoke about the aspiration to democracy that brings together the Arab youth and connects them to the rest of the people in the world.

She also referred to the role of foreign powers in the support of dictatorships; about islamist movements and the need to distinguish between religion and politics.

“Contemporary history in the arab countries is telling us how hard it is to break free from the outside world in political terms, and to avoid authoritarian despotic regimes internally”, she said.

She also said that the demand for democracy in Egypt and the other Arab countries is not restrained to the electoral system or the partisan system, but to a new and integral conception of democracy that includes from working conditions to the access to media.

The oil and security agreements signed by Mubarak in his three decades in power are crucial for the Western countries and for Israel, because achieving a true democracy with the peoples’ participation will have objective obstacles.

Meanwhile, Lebanon, just like the rest of the Arab world welcomed the news of the end of Mubarak’s regime with street celebrations, says Morris Norah, a member of the country’s National Bureau of the Communist Country.

Norah was also interviewed by Onda Merlin Comunitaria about the role of Egypt in the successive agreements signed on Palestine, which has had as a result the current situation of territorial and political oppression of the people.

“The most important thing is not the figure of Mubarak, but the economic – 40% of the Egyptians are poor or suffer hunger- and political course that Mubarak established in a country so important in the region”, said the Lebanese activist.

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