Dear CITASA: I know cyber optimism is out of vogue, but I've leaked a bit of it to the Huffington Post <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-n-howard/egypt-elections-muslim-br_b_790747.html>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-n-howard/egypt-elections-muslim-br_b_790747.html Dr. Philip N. Howard Associate Professor Department of Communication Jackson School of International Studies Information School University of Washington Project on Information Technology and Political Islam <http://www.pITPI.org/>www.pITPI.org<http://www.pITPI.org> NEW BOOK The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam (Oxford University Press, 2010)