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Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.

Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.

Egypt is the most populous Arab nation, the seat of Sunni Islamic doctrine, and has tremendous political, religious and social influence on the rest of the region. For better or worse, it will lead the rest of the Middle East by example. So goes Egypt, so goes the region.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.