The flames that engulfed Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia proved a spark that has ignited protest around the Arab world. Since that beginning of the Arab spring, we are witnessing a breathtaking chain of events in the region. Tunisia has gone to the polls, with the moderately Islamist Ennahda party winning election. Islamists are on the rise in Libya after Gaddafi, and in Egypt there are questions how far and how moderately the Muslim Brotherhood will emerge. And everywhere the rights of people are threatened, from Egyptians protesting against the post-Mubarak military to protests in Bahrain, Syria and Yemen, and the old but ever new struggle by Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.