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Not being an expert on the Arab countries and coming from Germany my focus on the Arab revolution so far has been mainly directed at how the revolutions are talked about in Germany, how they are reported about in the media and the role of anti-Muslim racism and Orientalism in this. I have written much on how Europe reacts to migration flows from the Arab countries with migration restrictions and the deadly affects of these measures.

During the summit these topics were not really part of the debate. The issues are different. A good experience for me to understand the Eurocentrism in my perspective and to provincialise Europe.

A next step would be (and then it really would be an Arab-German dialogue and not just a meeting of Arabs and Germans) to see what the transnational aspects of the Arab revolutions are, how the Germans/ Europeans are linked to it and how one can develop also joint agendas.