Khalid Albaih

In em­brac­ing dic­ta­to­r­i­al tac­tics, Musk is mak­ing the same mis­takes many tyrants made be­fore him.

What can we learn from the fail­ures and suc­cess­es of rev­o­lu­tions in the Arab world over the last 10 years?

In 2011, we knew the tran­si­tion to a de­mo­c­ra­t­ic Libya would be com­pli­cat­ed. Ten years on, we can see it was a fail­ure.

Ten years on, the winds of change that brought us the Arab Spring have kept blow­ing, but not al­ways in our favour.

Ten years on, the sta­tus quo in post-rev­o­lu­tion coun­tries has only had a change of clothes.

More than a year af­ter the Su­danese rev­o­lu­tion top­pled al-Bashir, racism is still ram­pant in the coun­try.

Bil­lions of Brown and Black peo­ple have known re­stric­tions, re­pres­sion and de­pri­va­tion all their lives.

The counter-rev­o­lu­tion has struck and tem­porar­i­ly cleared the streets, but it has not bro­ken the rev­o­lu­tion­ary spir­it.

Khalid Al­baih is a Su­danese car­toon­ist liv­ing in Doha, Qatar.

An Arab Mus­lim car­toon­ist con­demns the Paris at­tacks even though he finds the mag­a­zine’s ed­i­to­r­i­al slant hurt­ful.