The On Arab Spring, Syria

“Security forces opened fire, killing at least four protesters and within days, the protests grew into rallies that gathered thousands of people.” The killings of these four were ultimately regarded by many as the first deaths of the Syrian uprising.

Discuss the structural factors which contributed to the onset of the Arab Spring in 2011. Based on what you learned about the origins of revolutions in this class, was this wave of contention inevitable?

The Arab Spring was a very important public movement against tyranny because people want to be free, fed, have freedom of speech, etc. In Islamic understanding, this movement was totally foolish because any Islamic government uses theocratic tyranny to govern its people. In this manner public rebellions occurred during the Arab Spring. Today, the Turkish Government want to change the regime from democracy into theocratic tyranny because in theocratic tyranny, the dictators will be fed, not the people. The Middle East needs more democracy to heal

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,

Syria, expanding over 185,180 square kilometers of southwest Asia, is located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. It includes five main geographic zones. These are the; Jazirah in the northeast; a country with low rolling hills, the area east of the Ansariyah and Anti-lebanon ranges, the Euphrates river that crosses a desert region, the coastal plain along the Mediterranean shore, and the mountain and hill regions that include Ansariyah Mountains in the northwest parallel to the coast, the slopes east of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, and Jabal Ad-Duruz in the southeast. Of these geographic areas, Syria borders Lebanon (Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations, “Syria”).

Voice holds a value and can literally change the world. In March of 2011, a group of people peacefully protested against the Syrian government; however, that little action rippled into a civil war within a major country. Multiple parties got involved as well as majorities and minorities. The war in Syria is a civil war but many other countries are involved because they have personal interest in the country.

The Arab Spring was a series of revolutions across the Middle East and North Africa. In these revolutions, people fought for political, economic and human rights. This movement started on December 18, 2010. People protested and raised awareness because they were not being treated correctly in their own homes. These governments were very corrupt, unfair and did not-listen to what the people had to say. The people of the Middle East and North Africa were not going to stand for it. The Arab Spring was how most countries in the Middle East and North Africa were going to bring justice into the country.

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.

Syrian civil war started in 2011 was the outcome of the opposition against the President Bashar al-Assad regime. The uprising emerged as a response to the Arab spring movement that lead to regime change in Tunisia and subsequently turned into mass unrest rooted into the discontent with long-term dictatorship and poor economic situation in the country (Manfreda, n.d.). The number of Syrian citizens killed in the civil war reached 140000 since March 2011 (SBS 2014). The European Commission (2014, 2) reports approximately 9.3 million civilians “in need for humanitarian assistance”. The scale of armed rebellion between government and opposition that lead to an increasing number of casualties among civilians did not remain unnoticed by the

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

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right” is a quote from Victor Hugo that symbolizes the new age of human rights. Over the years, countries around the world have witnessed terrifying yet life-changing revolutions, but no one in history had expected for such a quick and sudden revolution to begin like the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring has allowed people, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, to speak out for what they believe in today. Many laws have been overturned due to the amount of pressure the people are putting on their government. One revolution started it all, and ever since then, we have realized many of the biggest protests in history, the rise and downfalls of the economy, a different side to the

As an Arab I constantly heard other Arabs around me blame every problem big or small in the Middle East being caused by the Western colonizers that colonized the Arab states in the 20th century. Now I defiantly don’t blame the British and French for all of our problems but indeed they are the root cause of some of the problems in the Middle East, and their meddling in the current affairs in the Middle East is adding on to the problems we have and causing new ones erupt. Out of all the problems in the Middle East the Syrian Conflict is one of the most brutal conflicts, thanks to the former colonizer of Syria, France. The Syrian Civil war has been one of the most tragic conflicts in modern times, and in four years has led to the killing of

The “Arab Spring” is the revolutionary wave of protests and demonstrations in the Arab World, in both the Middle East and North Africa. These waves and protests were done both in peace and violence, and up to this day with the exception of Tunisia there is no clear sign if the Arab Spring is successful or not. The Arab Spring were caused by many different factors, differing from the way the Arab world was split in the end of the Cold War disregarding the different factions in the region, to the injustice in government, coincidentally, resulting the war all to seemingly happen simultaneously.

Over the past couple of years we have certainly seen a drastic change in the Arab world dating back to December of 2010 in Tunisia as protestors forced ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country. This was the beginning of the Arab spring, which saw a revolutionary wave spread across many Arabic countries resulting in four leaders being forced from power in the countries of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. The sociological perspective on conflict states that the world is in a continual struggle and this is true as there is always going to be tension between two competing groups or multiple groups who don’t necessarily agree with a certain issue (Schaefer & Haaland, 2012). In most cases, especially in