Womens rights and the arab spring middle eastnorth africa overview and fact sheet successful uprisings in tunisia and egypt in the last year have sparked movements against dictatorships across the middle east, north africa, and the gulf region. Many of the people from the middle east were influenced. Arab spring is a political concept that spread widely in the media and academic art publications. Applying the framework of digital reflexivity to analyze gender and online activism. The arab spring in egypt religious literacy project. While the uprising in tunisia led to some improvements in the country from a humanrights perspective, not all of the nations that witnessed such social and political. Through interviews with some of the regions leading civic entrepreneurs, including political activists, artists, and technologists. A bumpy road ahead pdf by hassan hakimian, director of the london middle east institute and reader, economics department, soas underscores the underlying importance of the economic conditions facing the new republics, such as egypt and tunisia, which are emerging as a result of the arab spring. On the economic causes of the arab spring and its possible developments. The event set off uprisings across north africa and the. This guide compiles resources about the arab spring from different think tanks and news sources, and it guides you on how to find relevant information using the library resources. Overview there has been much analysis of the causes and rapid spread of the 2011 arab spring or arab uprisings. Arab spring in tmisia and egypt 53 in this paper i focus on the arab spring outbreaks in tunisia and egypt and document how disenfranchised youth took advantage of emerging wired technological formats in their respective countries to create mediated communities, networks and identities that decolonized. The arab spring is a series of uprisings in arab countries.
Triggers, dynamics and prospects stephan rosiny on 17 december 2010, the selfimmolation of tunisian vegetable vendor mohammed bouazizi sparked the arab spring. Arab spring happens in the middle eastern nations, which include tunisia, egypt, libya and yemen. Within a few months, a wave of protest had swept away the despots of tunisia, egypt and libya. The arab spring refers to a period of protests beginning on december 18, 2010 in tunisia, which quickly spread to numerous other arab nations and resulted in regime change in tunisia, libya, egypt, and yemen, and repression andor violence in syria, bahrain, sudan, and elsewhere. The future of the arab spring examines the spirit of civic entrepreneurship that brought once untouchable dictators to their knees and continues to shape the regions political, artistic, and technology sectors. To politically analyze the neverending arab spring, is a difficult task today as the arab spring continues to. The reasons and economic and political consequences of. The arab spring was a wave of prodemocracy protests and uprisings that took place in the middle east and north africa in 2010 and 2011. Pop, pathos, and poetry interview with alawiyya sobh. The cases of tunisia and egypt contributing factors to the. But their purpose, relative success, and outcome remain hotly disputed in arab countries, among foreign observers, and between world powers looking to cash in on the changing map of the middle east. The arab spring has brought down regimes in some arab countries, sparked mass violence in others, while some governments managed to delay the trouble with a mix of repression, promise of reform, and state largesse.
The roots and causes of the 2011 arab uprisings kamal eldin osman salih abstract. Syria this guide lists online and print sources for what has become known as the arab spring, the popular revolutionary wave in the middle east and north africa that started in december 2010. To answer this question a comparative analysis is made of arab countries during the arab. Social and national movementwhichstarted in 20102011. Arab spring, wave of prodemocracy protests and uprisings that took place in the middle east and north africa beginning in 2010, challenging some of the regions entrenched authoritarian regimes.
Disturbances have ranged from protests to full civil war and. Pdf on the economic causes of the arab spring and its. In tripoli, libya shows how far anyone would go to achieve power estimation of deaths in libya varies from 2,000 to 30,000 between march 2 and september 8 anyone who has an identical name as ghadaffi were put to death. Demonstrators expressing political and economic grievances faced violent crackdowns by. In this study, which highlights a renewed emphasis in international affairs on regional studies, the coauthors provide an assessment of the revolutionary changes in the politics and security of the middle east and north africa mena. The economics of the arab spring and its aftermath 5. The reasons and economic and political consequences of arab spring 43 egypt, where arab spring lasted longer, is one of the largest countries in africa with its advantages such as its location, tourism revenues and logistics moaddel, 2012. Arab spring modernity, identity and change eid mohamed. A year of revolution a year ago, a tunisian fruitseller set himself on fire after being humiliated by a police officer. This paper argues that we ought to understand the arab spring as transformative revolutionary movement, but one that will be faced with numerous bumps in the road ahead. The question that guides the research in my thesis, then, is the following.
This guide compiles resources about the arab spring from different think. Introduction during the winter of 2010 and the spring of 2011, the world watched as prodemocracy protesters across north africa and the middle east rose up. In egypt, protests and strikes began on january 25, 2011. Something that exists underground finds and outlet and emerges philosophical significance place of gathering realisation purity spring 5. Zine alabindine ben ali, or ben ali, dismissed bourguiba on counts of senility. The arab spring and the geopolitics of the middle east. Literature and the arab spring an uprising of words. If the arab spring does not produce capable, durable political structures that would allow these states to police their own extremists, the united. It challenged some of the regions most authoritarian regimes. Polyvocal, leaderless and using new styles of communication, the post arab spring voices do not seek power but seek to defy the state and push it to address the hitherto taboo topics such as. The arab spring marked a discontinuity in regional history as well as in social.
Dr amr yossef is an independent scholar based in cairo, egypt. Arab spring students britannica kids homework help. After discussing the cartoons and handouts, ask each group to share their definitions of the arab spring. Arab spring, the widespread protests and revolts in the arab world and in northern africa, originated in tunisia. There followed months of political turmoil in which government forces killed hundreds of protesters. The arab spring was a series of protests and uprisings in the middle east that began with unrest in tunisia in late 2010. This book provides systematic, integrated analyses of emergent social and cultural dynamics in the wake of the socalled arab spring rooted in the interdisciplinary frameworks offered by political science, cultural studies, media and film studies, middle eastern studies, and political theory. General consensus emerges on a combination of political, economic and social factors as being critical. Mass protests erupted in january 2011 when president ali abdullah saleh tried to change the constitution so he could stay in power for life. The arab spring is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the arab world. Which features of society can explain the largescale protests in the arab spring.
These movements call for democratization, new constitutions that protect equality, free speech. Laughing through the arab spring by bassem youssef totally free ebook pdf kindle reader online book. Although this is mostly a regional issue, it affects many countries all over the world. Muhammad albouazizi, a poor, unemployed, economically and socially. Briefly after the revolution, libya experienced a period of calm before it was plunged yet again into another conflict.
The arab spring was a series of antigovernment protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across the middle east in early 2011. The movement began in tunisia in 2010, and thereafter it soon spread to other countries in north africa and the middle east. Saudi arabia and the arab spring ren rieger gulf research center context, the decisive factors are geographic proximity, the nature of the concerned states political system, and the quality of the particular regimes relations with the kingdom and iran. Polyvocal, leaderless and using new styles of communication, the postarab spring voices do not seek power but seek to defy the state and push it to address the hitherto taboo topics such as. Demonstrators expressing political and economic grievances faced violent crackdowns by their countries security forces. Where did it all come from and what exactly happened. Laughing through the arab spring by bassem youssef inquiries tutorial entire personas report with investigation information dummies making use of all chapters gratis. Libguides arab uprisings overview search this guide search. Writing about the arab spring july 01, 2011 education resources. Causes include human rights violations, economic decline, as well as extreme poverty caused by unemployment.
Note the similarities and differences between each group then share the following overview of the arab spring. The tumult of the arab spring also showed autocratic governmentsand the rest of the worldthat millions of people living in islamic nations believe in free. The arab spring jason marshall introduction the arab spring is a blanket term to cover a multitude of uprisings and protests in the middle east that began in the winter of 2010 and continue today. This essay analyzes the engagement of arab feminist activisms online, most notably. The influx of citizens in the country of tunisia, syria, egypt, and many others opposed their governments dictatorship.
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