Tunisia : the tale of a new era

I was born in 1987 in Riyadh the capital of Saudi Arabia , being a middle eastern guy makes me more familiar with political disasters but on other hands being a post-colonial newborn makes me not aware totally of what my parents went through, not capable to fully understand the reasons of that time that contributed to this modern middle east.
my dear father -may he rest in peace- was  proud of being an arab and always told me that all failures in the region were just black pages in our history "he also told me about a lot of red bloody ones" and the arab masses will wake up someday to choose their own leaders to save their countries from enemies of the outside and the inside too and start a new era of dignity.
Away from the famous arab radio in my old man's days "arab voice = saout olarab" there were no more sources of the arab-israeli wars information , the voice of jamal abdulnasser had that sedative effect during listening followed by that stimulant effect making the people scream and go protesting "not here :\" to support the notorious arab leader of that time, the one that said no to colonial forces and nationalized the Suez canal leading to another war, the one that also filled the dungeons with political opponents. 
a lot of arab leaders came after that with most of them being dictators ruling with the guns & ideologies "religion, nationalism you name it" and all using the people in the name of saving the lands from either the damn imperialists \ or the infidels .
people knew the simple equation saying that the more the leader screams against the enemy the more he is a traitor to his beliefs and the more he is gaining trust inside the enemies closed offices.
as years pass most of the arab world leaders were reaching their positions by either bequeathing or a military uprising, but there was that sort of an exception that my dad was proud to tell me trying to plant that hope inside me , it was the tale of abdulrahman sewar addahab the Sudanese general who overthrew a dictator to promise his citizines with a fair elections "without him as a candidate' and did it but of course the happy ending is missing in sudan and you can see it in the news.
about one week ago another exception did happen in the last place any man around here will ever dream of ... Tunisia the oasis of secularism as the western governments and media always pictured it. the people were the ones that started and finished this revolution and amazingly for the first time in the arab world the army refused to obey the tyrant's "bin ali" orders to stop it with bullets on the contrary the army filled the streets of Tunisia to gain balance in the streets and fired their bullets against the private guards of bin ali that were spreading terror between citizens. it was a lot of adrenaline for a simple guy like me to handle .... IT WAS A DAMN MIRACLE . jaw dropping to the point i wake up each day to see the news to be sure that no army general woke up with a crazy idea to rule the country and till now fortunately i'm wrong and hope to be that for ever.
ladies and gentlemen the youth or arab world who became so pessimistic due to all the corruption, torture, human right restrictions, ignorance and a bull shit filled media entered now a new era were they have an example of a country that grasped it's freedom and will not allow anybody to try taking it away. now they know the power of the new media and know more about the hypocrisy of arab\western media and regimes. they know how a lot of political, religious, social figures are a bunch of liars.
now they know more ... Tunisia didn't only gain it's freedom  it gave us all the gift of mind liberation .

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I wrote the post above after the tunisian revolution but didn't publish it as I thought of it as a bad post , I remember at that time I went to my dad's grave as usual and after praying for him I started talking to him about what happened, I'm not that emotional guy and I definitely can't hear or whisper dead people :P but I developed  this stupid habit of talking to him in my blue mood days. I was thrilled at that time.
a few days ago I went there again and the moment I was with him I smiled saying "man you won't believe how the world changed, the Egyptians are doing it now" . 
we are free from our mind chains, no one will stop us now.

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a Tunisian poet once said "If the people ever wanted to live -freely- then destiny will obey their demand"
the poem is one of my favorite "in Arabic of course" but the cynical part of the story is that it is one of the most known in Arab world as most of schools force little children to memorize it not knowing that it will be the slogan of this revolutionary time.