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Go topBy: Emily Devereaux/Arab America Contributing Writer Historically, most revolutions used significant cultural symbols to help push ideas through the entire population. For example, many people dressed in certain fashions and adorned in various symbols in the French Revolution to signify a tangible representation for their cause. Similarly, Arab revolutionaries recognized the cultural significance of music … Continued
SOURCE: ALJAZEERA BY: YEHIA HAMED Palestinians have reignited an urge for freedom that is irrepressible, and will spread all over. About 10 years ago, a desperate act of protest against state violence by a single citizen, Mohamed Bouazizi, ignited in Tunisia, and then across the Middle East, an unprecedented uprising that came to be known as the … Continued
SOURCE: ALJAZEERA BY: HAYTHEM GUESMI In the aftermath of the January 6 right-wing insurrection on Capitol Hill in Washington, the role social media played in these events came into the media spotlight in the United States. For years, fringe ideologues had used online platforms undisturbed to promote their extreme ideologies and conspiracies and recruit a … Continued
SOURCE: ALJAZEERA Ten years ago, protests swept across Arab nations that changed the course of history. On January 14, 2011, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stepped down after weeks of protests, ending his 24-year rule. What began as a protest by Mohamed Bouazizi – a fruit vendor who set himself on fire – … Continued
SOURCE: NPR BY: RUTH SHERLOCK Nine years ago this month, residents of the small Syrian town of Douma were in full rebellion against the regime of President Bashar Assad. Throughout the preceding year, Assad had watched as popular protests ousted dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, and demonstrations spread to Bahrain, Algeria, Yemen. Now pro-democracy … Continued
Exclusive: Guardian-YouGov poll suggests majority in nine countries across the Arab world feel inequality has increased SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN BY: Michael Safi in Tunis A majority in nine countries across the Arab world feel they are living in significantly more unequal societies today than before the Arab spring, an era of uprisings, civil wars and … Continued
SOURCE: FOREIGN POLICY BY: OZ KATERJI The Arab world is trapped in a state of permanent revolution On Dec. 17, 2010, the world was changed forever by the actions of one man. A Tunisian fruit seller named Mohamed Bouazizi doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire outside the provincial headquarters of Sidi Bouzid … Continued
SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES BY: FREDERIC WEHREY On a recent visit to Libya, I met a family living in an improvised shelter in a displaced persons camp east of Tripoli. One of the tens of thousands of Libyan families uprooted by war, the family of seven was living in a room barely 20 paces … Continued
SOURCE: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT. ORG BY: MARWAN MUASHER Nearly a decade after the Arab Spring fizzled, a new wave of protest has swept over the Middle East and North Africa. What is different this time, and will the protesters get what they want? Nearly a decade after the Arab Spring fizzled, a new wave of protest … Continued
SOURCE: BBC BY: JEREMY BOWEN As the last of the Middle Eastern summer fades away, is the region slipping into a new Arab spring? In Iraq, demonstrators are being shot dead in the streets. In Lebanon, protesters have paralysed the country and seem set to bring down the government of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri. In … Continued
SOURCE: THE NATION BY: TESBIH HABBAL AND MUZNA HASNAWI Protesters are back on the streets across the Arab and Muslim world, in Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Algeria, and Sudan, crying out the famous slogan of the Arab Spring: “Al-shab yurid isqat al- nizam!” (The people want the fall of the regime!) The protesters who have taken … Continued
SOURCE: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BY: ERIN BLAKEMORE Beginning in December 2010, anti-government protests rocked Tunisia. By early 2011 they had spread into what became known as the Arab Spring—a wave of protests, uprisings, and unrest that spread across Arabic-speaking countries in North Africa and the Middle East. Pro-democratic protests, which spread rapidly due to social media, ended … Continued
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