✚ The Middle East greets Barack Obama's re-election with a shrug

✚ The Middle East greets Barack Obama's re-election with a shrug

My article for The Guardian on the Middle East and Obama's re-election.The basic take: no one should be expecting to Obama to offer solutions to Arab problems, and many in the Arab world simply no longer care about who's in charge in Washington as they once did. And that's a good thing.