Abstract
Democracy -which means an authority of the people as opposed to that of the<br />ruler- fair general election, civil supremacy, equality before law, and government<br />accountability are seemingly inapplicable in Arab countries. Applying democracy and<br />sustaining it will require what Bernard Lewis calls “gradual and deliberate change”, which<br />will take these countries to a reform process from a political autocracy to an open and<br />competitive political system. The same view is echoed by Robin Wright. To him, democracy<br />in Arab countries will need a long time to take place. This is because culturally and<br />socially speaking political freedom and individual participation in politics are hard to<br />come by in these countries.
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