The "Street" and the Politics of Dissent in the Arab World

Abstract

In the tense weeks between the September II attacks and the first US bombing raids over Afghanistan, and continuing until the fall of the Taliban, commentators raised serious concerns about what the Wall StreetJournal later called the irrational street.' If the US attacked a Muslim country, the pundits worried, would the Arab street rally behind Osama bin Laden and other radical Islamists, endangering other US

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