Social Media in the Arab World: Leading up to the Uprisings of 2011 The Center for International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for Democracy commissioned this report‚ Social Media in the Arab World: Leading up to the Uprisings of 2011‚ several months before the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt‚ and it was completed just as they broke out. It is published as a stage-setter for the events that are rapidly unfolding in the Arab world. The Arab world has experienced an awakening of free
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Arab Spring ARAB SPRING The term Arab Spring as used to denote these events may have started with an article by Marc Lynch published in the political journal Foreign Policy. The Arab Spring is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations‚ protests‚ and wars occurring in the Arab world that began on 18 December 2010 and have continued since. To date‚ rulers have been forced from power in Tunisia‚ Egypt‚ Libya‚ and Yemen; civil uprisings have erupted in Bahrain and Syria; major protests have broken out
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February 12‚ 2014 The Arab Spring. Has it Failed? The article “The Arab Spring. Has it Failed?” as seen in The Economist is about how despite the fact that after two and a half years of revolution and violence in the middle east we have seen very little positive changes‚ we shouldn’t give up hope as the Arab Spring revolution of brining positive change to this area of the world hasn’t exactly failed just yet. Because some of the countries with the highest hopes are struggling (Tunisia‚ Libya and
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centuries‚ Arab regimes have expropriated‚ abused and taken advantage of power and wealth from their people; it was only a matter of time before things turned around. The year 2010 will be remembered in history as the year that witnessed the uprising of the Arab Spring‚ the term "Arab Spring" denotes the Revolutions of 1848; a series of political turmoil swept through Europe in 1848. Moreover‚ in the aftermath of the Iraq War the term ‘Arab Spring’ was used by analysts who foresaw a major Arab movement
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This video shows the different aspects of the Arab Spring from the viewpoints of Mary Jane Deeb‚ Tarek Masoud‚ and Hisham Melhem. Mary Jane Deeb believes that because of the uniqueness of every country’s situation there is bound to be unique outcomes. She explains that Libya is a fairly new state and therefore is not as progressed as other countries. However she adds that Egypt’s army takes up a big portion of control in the area and are very influential. She sees that most countries are taking after
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has escalated into a full scale violent uprising against the dictatorial government of President Bashar Al-Assad. This insurrection has placed Syria at the head of a growing regional movement called the ‘Arab Spring’ which is calling for more freedom and modernization of government throughout the Arab states. With no end to the violence in sight‚ foreign intervention becomes more and more likely. One recent developing story from Syria is the assassination of Kurdish politician Meshaal Tammo by forces
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Arab Spring & Pakistan The winds of change which arose in Tunisia following the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in a small village on December 17‚ 2010‚ and which have since then swept through many countries in the Arab world‚ may finally arrive in Pakistan. The most important aspect of the Arab Spring is “hope”. Hope can‚ in fact be the other name of this movement which has reinvigorated millions of hearts which had experienced nothing but despair for decades – that same dark despair which Pakistanis
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Two years after the outbreak of what has come to be known as the Arab Spring‚ the bloom is off the rose. Fledgling democracies in North Africa are struggling to move forward or even maintain control‚ government crackdowns in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere have kept liberalization at bay‚ and Syria is slipping ever deeper into a vicious civil war that threatens to ignite the Middle East. Instead of widespread elation about democracy finally coming to the region‚ one now hears pessimism about the many
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Causal Analysis of the Arab Spring On 17 December 2010‚ 26-year-old jobless Mohammed Bouazizi‚ frustrated and ashamed by the public humiliation inflicted by a Tunisian female municipal officer and her asides who confiscated the fruit and vegetables he was selling from a street stall and slapped his face in the process‚ set himself on fire and passed away a few days later. As an aftermath of this incident‚ a huge wave of protests over unemployment and social issues sparked out in Tunisia‚ forcing
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the Arab spring “Ladies and gentlemen‚ I stand before here today to share with you in one of the most historical moments in not only in the Arab world‚ but also to the entire world as a whole. Many of us would begin by asking‚ “what was this Arab Spring?” well‚ the Arab Spring was a revolutionary wave of demonstrations‚ protests‚ and civil wars in the Arab world that began on the 18th of December 2010. As to the question of “why it took place?” there were different local causes for the Arab Spring
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