The author, a professor of political science at Cairo University, tackles the issue of Christian concerns in Lebanon in light of the current unrest in neighboring Syria.

She says that disappearance of Christians as a political power from the current scene is a very negative thing to the course of democratization and the safe passage of the transitional period.

She points out that the Christians in the Arab world must be strongly contributing to the formation of revolutions' political system institutions.

[Reviewer's note: The original article in Arabic is not available on the Internet]