The Arab Spring and its aftermath has become one of the most influential events of the twenty-first century. The series of revolutions reshaped several governments within the Middle East by outing long reigning dictators that the people had become progressively frustrated with. The Arab Spring both aligns with and contradicts several previous waves of revolution and is truly a twenty-first century conflict because of the role that modern technology played. Through studying the Arab Spring, political
2014 The French revolution and the Arab Spring revolution are comparable and both play significant roles. Many aspects of the revolutions from the causes to aftermath in the Middle East can resemble those that happened in France. All of which plays significant roles in people gaining rights, freedom, and respect. The first stage of a revolution is the political, social, intellectual, or economic causes or reasons why people want change. The French and Arab spring revolutions both have some
nineteenth century Europe’s Spring of Nations or the more contemporary anti-communist revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe . After years of conflict between values of the Western and Islamic civilizations, the same conflict that Huntington and his critics discuss, some argued, the Muslim Arab world ultimately chose to adopt Western values: human rights, freedom, and democracy. Thus, they experts who believed that the Arab spring symbolized a chance for democracy and change in the Arab world argued, that
the Muslim Arab societies provided information of some important aspects of the Arab Spring, such as causes and driving forces: search for identity; Muslim political culture; affection and rejection towards the West; and Islam’s central role. This thesis aims to offer a more methodical examination of this debate, and thereby provides an more dispassionate objective comprehensive answer as toto the relative relation and to the explanatory power of an important global event, the Arab spring, in regards
main points I am going to focus on are: what happened after the Holocaust ended, Rebuilding Jewish Life after the Holocaust, and the Homeland, Israel. World War II ended in the spring of 1945. “Germany unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945” (Jewish Life in Austria and Germany Since 1945, 47). An article called The Aftermath of The Holocaust, in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website states that: “in 1945, when Anglo-American and Soviet troops entered the concentration camps, they discovered
In the mid-twentieth century, an Arab nationalist fervor overtook Syria, leading to a series of coups which would eventually install the ostensibly socialist Ba’ath party at the head of state -- a rule that lasts tenuously to the present day. In the chaos of the aftermath of European occupation the seeds were sown for the conflict that rends Syria today as a nation struggles to define itself outside of the context of both factionalist terrorism and the autocratic al-Assad regime which has reigned
Being tasked with creating a project that addressed any topic related to the Arab world can be a daunting assignment. Nevertheless, my group was able to create a unique project that highlighted a monumental string of events that shaped the Arab world as we see it today. The topic decided upon was the Arab Spring in Egypt, specifically looking at how Facebook existed in its timeframe as a mechanism for collaboration and action toward a revolution and regime change. Together, we set to understand the
Accordingly, the rise of terms such as “Twitter Revolution” reflected the claim that those dramatic changes in North African countries, and later in other Arab countries, could not succeed without social media. According to Howard and Hussain (2011), many Arab activists strongly believed that social media enabled the masses of protesters to organise themselves virtually by using these online platforms. In their article, they claim that the protesters, by
It has been years since I abdicated my thrown in favor of a Kaufman system. You see I was a powerful leader in my country but I did wrong by my people. I clung to power through force and suppression which led to my ultimate downfall. Much like Iraq my country of Rambutan was a result of war and western influence. People of conflicting beliefs were thrown together under one state and given a constitution to abide by. Western powers believed that a democracy and constructed constitution would solve
In this part of the essay, Tunisia and Libya are discussed in terms of freedom, whether it is political or social and how former ruling systems facilitated the process of recovery after Arab Spring. Both Tunisia and Libya started their promising journey in the post-coup era towards a more democratic political environment. However, it has proven a challenge particularly for Libya as they never experienced a democratic rule despite having elections in accordance with democratic values during the reign