I recently finished reading Tariq Ramadan’s “Islam and the Arab Awakening” I bought before his lecture at ASU. After his wonderful address, I was humbled to meet him and receive his personal message.
As for the book, in my opinion Ramadan elucidates an extremely knowledgeable, consistent, prescient, balanced discourse. He most assuredly has the credentials to contribute a much deeper and nuanced interpretation of events which have been dubiously and collectively stamped as the “Arab Spring”. This is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA). 