Essays on Arab Spring

Origin The Arap Uprising/Spring refers to a series of popular uprisings in countries Arab occurred from 2010 to the present. Rated speed by the international press, the chain of conflicts began with the Tunisian revolution, in December 2010. However, Noam Chomsky, renowned philosopher, and activist...

It is now almost half a decade since Tarek al-Tayeb Mohammed Bouazizi, a petty street fruit vendor, set himself on fire after being humiliated by local police. That one single act by the vendor opened up doors to what would become one of the most...

The unstoppable advancements of the Internet and social networks entered a society as an explosion in the early 2000’s. In Arab countries, these new developments were the trigger event that forced people to take the streets to protest the many factors hindering the lives everyday...

The select case study movements are Occupy Wall Street that was birthed in New York City, U.S.A, and Arab Spring that entailed Arabic countries in the middle east and Africa. The formation of movements was towards achieving social justice, and political and economic change; the...

Syria pushed the uprising in Syria into Qatar’s second intervention in the Arab Spring. However, the world of difference separates the cases of Libya and Syria as two disparate points in successive regional turmoil. While the regime of Gaddafi was diplomatically and politically isolated (and...

In early 2011, a wave of civil unrest swept across many Arab countries in northern Africa and southwest Asia. Long-held tensions surfaced once Mohamed Bouazizi sparked the Tunisian revolution by burning himself in protest of government corruption (Abouzeid). The Tunisian revolution acted as the impetus...

Although Algeria saw some uprisings in the early 2011, the scale and the outcome of these uprisings were not like those in Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt. The fact that the regime didnot change in Algeria during the Arab Spring of 2011 has made many think...