Loved Egyptian NightLoved Egyptian Night fundamentally reassesses the Arab Spring, debunking the stories the Western powers fed to the world. There is no doubt that the toppling of Ben Ali in Tunisia in January 2011 constituted a political revolution. Was the same ever really true of events in Egypt, Syria or Libya, countries with quite different social topographies? The bitter ends of these uprisings were inscribed in their misunderstood beginnings, Hugh Roberts argues.