The Arab Spring Movement Of 2011

During the 2011 Egypt uprising protesters gained support through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to help end poverty and unemployment in which they were experiencing at the time. This major flow of support from across the world helped strengthen the protesters cause and led to an eventual victory in Egypt (Brym 2014).

The Arab Spring was a series of uprisings in the Middle East beginning in the year 2011. The results of these revolutions are still being felt in places present day such as Syria. The wave of uprisings began in Tunisia and slowly spread throughout the regions, with notable long lasting campaigns involved in countries such as Syria, Libya and Egypt. The hope of political scientists at the time was that the Middle East has had enough of tyranny and oppression and was finally taking control to overthrow the aggressors and institute democratic change. This was simply not the case, as Tunisia was the only success story and the rest of the nations involved had their uprising crushed, or the country went into a period of a prolonged civil war. There

The term “Arab Spring” has emerged in academic literature as well as in the general media from about early 2011. It refers to the “awakening” of some Arab nations and the movements to replace authoritarian regimes with democratic ones. The theme of “spring” and “awakening” seems to have been borrowed from the 1989 reform movements in the former Eastern-block nations, such as in the former German Democratic Republic or Hungary. However, this comparison has been criticised by some analysts since both the circumstances which have led to these movements as well as the outcome of these reform efforts seem to differ quite a lot. Yet, the Arab Spring term seems to be still widely used and even found an extension in the creation of the term Arab Winter which refers to events that happened in 2012 in some Arab countries during which these reform movements seemed to have “cooled-off” and particular nations, such as Egypt, attempted to go back to the status-quo of the pre-2011 era.

Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian man who was being harassed by the government, set himself on fire in order to catch the government's attention and make people realize how bad the government of Tunisia was in 2011. The government took his scale for his fruit stand because he didn’t have a permit. He had enough of people taking his things over and over again so he wanted people to notice the corruption in the government. The Arab Spring Movement was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that occurred in 2011 throughout the Middle East. Most of them were to overthrow their dictator leaders. The Arab Spring Movement was in no way successful. Arab Spring has resulted in corruption, people haven’t gotten a real democracy,

In this video, Richard Haass, the President of the council on foreign relations discusses the reasoning behind the fail of the Arab Spring. He starts by saying that despite the strong protests made by civilians, they had no one to put into power. They did not have any specific candidate or any candidates at all to lead them if the Arab Spring were to succeed. He also adds that part of the failure of the Arab Spring was due to the fact that protesters did not look into the future. Many protests were not strong enough to overthrow dictators and their autocratic regimes which led more and more people dead. Terror groups like ISIS began to form and other older militia groups such as Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, the Taliban, and Hamas began to gain more

The Arab Spring was an opportunity for many Arabs to let their voices be heard; to express their opinion and share it with others. But, freedom of speech is a very strong weapon that needs to be used wisely and with responsibility, something that many Arabs did not know how to do. A single post could go viral, leading to a street gathering or a demonstration and maybe even a civil war such as the one taking place in Syria. Syrians did not succeed in using free speech. The Syrian president shut down the internet and controlled all social media. He then responded violently to the protests, launching a civil war that has been going for more than 5 years. Killing more than 200,000 people and creating refugees. Something that he must tolerate forever.

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The protests and revolutions of the Arab Spring resulted in political change with different outcomes in the nature of each political regime with regards to Tunisia and Egypt. Both countries shared similar political, social and cultural characteristics at the time of the uprisings. They both began as hegemonic and restrictive authoritarian regimes and followed classic patterns for democratization, such as enactment of a new constitution and holding of competitive elections. Likewise, they both occurred in an environment where there was a divide between islamist and secular parties (Szmolka pg2). Following the Arab Spring, Tunisia was able to transition to a democracy because it had an inclusive transition that allowed for the participation

The 2011 uprising in Egypt was in many ways a traditional brick-and-mortar revolution, but with a cyber-twist to it: based on their statistical analysis of a large body of tweets related to the 2011 uprising in Egypt, Starbird and Palen (2012) observed that activists used Twitter as an important tool to share ideas and information with like-minded people, because Twitter allows a high number of activists interact using its retweet and other mechanisms. In this case, Twitter was used among participants and supporters of a traditional mass movement to bypass government controlled

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 Egyptian revolution beginning in 2010 in tangible terms that could be communicated to the average student, which we thought, was best done through a simplified simulation of how Facebook was used as a major tool and function. In order to

A revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests (both violent and non-violent), riots, and civil wars in the Arab World that began on 18 December 2010, later gained the heading “The Arab spring”. The Arab spring began by a twenty six year old boy named Mohammed Bouazizi was getting ready to sell fruits and vegetables in a rural town of Sidi Bouzid Tunisia. Bouazizi was the primary supporter for his widowed mother and six of his siblings. The entire incident originated when the police officer asked bouazizi to hand over his wooden cart, he refused the police women allegedly slapped him after being publicly humiliated bouazizi marched in front of a government building and set himself on fire. The Jasmine revolution in Tunisia, the shock wave swept across the country which threatened the stability of this oil-rich region with repercussion felt internationally. After the world witnessed what happened in Tunisia, it caused a spilled over into most of the Arab countries. Such as Egypt, Libya Syria and Yemen. Aim of this paper is to show that the current situation corollary of decades of failed policies, exacerbated by an unsolicited foreign intervention. The extensive consequences, I will argue, require cautious attention and careful management from international communities as well as the Arab human rights committee. This paper seeks to explore the profound causes that prompted the so called “Arab awakening” and the covert hidden agenda behind the sudden pro democratic

In late 2010, a tidal wave of uprisings and protests in various parts of the Arab world emerged. It began with the Tunisian revolution when the martyr Mahmoud Bouazizi set fire to himself as a result of the deteriorating economic and social. This led to protests and demonstrations that ended with the fall of the ruling regime. In Tunisia which sparked the beginning of revolutions in many Arab countries, this is known as an Arab Spring. The question remains what are the real reasons that led to the Arab Spring and its effects? the causes of the Arabic spring May be varied, depending on the places, however the reasons can be a corruption in economic policies and demand social justice as the key motives and protests in the Arab world. This essay will discuss the most important reasons, and the effects of what is known as the Arab Spring.

In late 2010, a Tunisian named Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest against the poor economic situation in which he was living (CNN, 2011). Other Tunisians soon took the opportunity to resist their government and possible overthrow the leadership of Ben Ali. They took it as their responsibility to fight for the common good. Simple demonstration against the Tunisian government soon went ahead to an extent that Ben Ali had to leave the country. The events that followed the departures of the Tunisian president were the least expected. The revolts in Tunisia spurred citizens of other Arab nations to revolt against their governments. By the end of the years 2011, the Arab spring had claimed the presidency of three long serving presidents and

Although the people’s voice is being heard and changes are being made, blood flows down the streets as people are being killed violently everyday. Many people believe it would have been more beneficial if the Middle East had completely avoid the Arab Spring or at least have gone a more passive road. Through the history of the region, leaders of Arab countries have anchored their position to later become rich and

The Arab Spring has been a life changing phenomena, not only for the people who are attempting to overthrow their governments but for political scientists everywhere. The events originating in the North African country of Tunisia have led to the snowballing of several other Middle Eastern, predominantly Muslim, nation states. The figurative breaking point might have finally been reached as the oppressed peoples of the Middle East have risen up to overthrow long-standing dictatorial governments in hopes of revolutionary change; change that is subject to the will of the people.