Intermediate - Freedom Restrained

Thank you for the poignant lesson! I would like to know some other related words regarding recent events.
I have seen the word ثورة for "revolution". Is it "thawra" or "thoora"?
Also how do you say "demonstrations"?
Congratulations Egypt and Tunisia! What an inspiration :)

"moving" lesson - nothing as strong as people uniting with a well defined objective in mind - remember the song of john lennon - thanks lads

@ hexagonmoon

The vowel in ﺛﻮﺮﺓ (thawra) is like the vowel in ﻤﻮﺖ (mawt) or Ger. “Haut”. You’ll find the word for “demonstration” in the lower intermediate lesson entitled “On strike” (line 2).

الله ئبرئك فئق Thank you for your couragious poem.
Take care,
Carl

I think "Western backed" is a propagandistic term. Are the dictators in Libya and Iran "western backed"? Even the Egypt and Tunisia cases aren't so crystal clearly possible to describe this way. What US/UK election has dealt with the issue of the question "do we vote for Hosni Mubarak"? Anyway, I'm happy that these countries seem to be opposing dictatorships now... I just hope that they replace autocracy with democracy and not theocracy (or another autocracy)...

Thank you for always striking the right balance in your lessons.

ah wonderful stuff, the keyboard is mightier than the sword, a blood diamond after the pearls.

@ Ehab

You said the poem as written by Ahmed Mater. Do you mean Ahmed Mater Al-Ziad Assiri (born in 1979)?

Ahmad Matar was born in in 1954 as far as Wikipedia says. Googling (أحمد مطر) or (Ahmed Matar) would give plenty of details about him.

Thank you for this information, Ehab. Since Matar and Mater are very common names, I wasn't sure who you were referring to.