But that mockery told us more about the prejudices of the critics than about the demonstrators themselves, who took to the streets flaunting their prejudices. There was something supposedly inauthentic here true protestors were burly, poor, coarse they had dirt on their nails as opposed to nail polish. 1 Most of the coverage, however, simply wrote off this singular episode of peaceful Arab resistance as a “Gucci Revolution.” 2 As Michael Young observes in The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle: Some reporters, like those who touched down in Beirut to cover the summer 2006 war, might be excused for swallowing Hizballah’s propaganda as fact, while other Western reporting and analysis out of Beirut was objectively pro-Hizballah: Nir Rosen’s articles and interviews, for example, and those of former British intelligence official Alastair Crooke and his American colleague Mark Perry of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum. press coverage on Lebanon and related matters has, by and large, been tilted against the pro-democracy March 14 movement. Since the beginnings in 2005 of Lebanon’s Independence Intifada, or what came to be known as the Cedar Revolution, U.S. The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle
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