Britain's former foreign minister David Miliband has high hopes for the Arab revolutions.
Inspired by the Arab spring, a new generation of Palestinians plan to fight the occupation with olive branches.
Tunisia's revolution will spread the scent of its jasmine to oppressed nations all over the region.
Unflattering as some western stereotypes are of Arab men, Western women also get a bad press in conservative Arab circles.
A UN report has reignited the controversy over who is to blame for the sorry state of the Arab world: Arabs or the West?