[Toronto Star] Mitch Potter - Lebanese sociologist Abdo Kahi has made a study of modern technology's impact on the larger Arab world. "The huge change happening in the Middle East today can be reduced to one sentence: New technology is an earthquake," said Kahi, founder of the Lebanese Center for Societal Studies at Notre Dame University-Louaize. "It is destroying the single most important attribute of governments in this region - the ability to control information. That era is dying. Now, we can all be our own ministers of information."
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