Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

The Arab Spring Uprisings are political protests against the governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Morocco, and Jordan. (Manfreda, ) The protests began in Tunisia when a vegetable vendor set himself on fire in protest of the actions of the government. This incident is said to have been the “spark” that fueled the action of the people to overthrow their governments. This region is being watched by every country in the world. The world is watching to see how it will affect

a vegetable vendor, ignited himself in protest and the day President Ben Ali stepped down and fled to Saudi Arabia after finding himself unable to quell the people’s anger. President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali put himself and his own personal interests before his people’s. His greed is at the root of the Jasmine Revolution, and it is this kind of thoughtless and avaricious leadership that causes conflict in the Middle East. Ben Ali was a corrupt government leader whose actions

threaten a dictator’s grip over a nation, either leading to their brutal crackdown on citizens or the forced removal of their regime. Citizens who are eager for change can be the death knell of an oppressive regime. For Tunisia, former president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, like many other rulers, eventually faced this threat. In 2011, the culmination of oppression and brutality led to the self-immolation of the young Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi. This triggered a multitude of protests that spread

“Who lost Tunisia?” This question may well haunt future European leaders. As Hervé Morin, a former French defense minister, recently warned, Europe — and France in particular — cannot afford to wait until the black flag of the Islamic State is hoisted above the presidential palace in Tunis. Sadly, this bleak scenario can no longer be dismissed as an alarmist exaggeration. Only weeks after the Bardo National Museum massacre in March, a jihadist struck again in June, this time at Sousse, a popular

Makings of a Tunisian Revolution Catalyzed by the Egyptian-born Wael Ghonim, who in June 2010 created a Facebook page in response to a picture of “28-year-old” Egyptian Khaled Mohamed Said, “who had been beaten to death by the Egyptian police”, young people in Egypt unleashed a social and political revolution against Hosni Mubarak’s repressive regime. Within months of setting up the page, called ‘We Are All Khaled Said’, over 250,000 people followed it. Inspired by Ghonim’s call to action

The Syrian Refugee Crisis Conflict, this term has a broad definition that is defined as “latent tensions and disagreements on the one end and goes to armed and violent clashes (e.g. wars) on the other” (Eroglu Utku, Sirkeci, and Yazgan 2015). This is the root cause of many of the violent wars and crises that have occurred over thousands of years. In more recent times critical conflicts that have occurred throughout the world have had adverse effects globally. It was estimated, by the United Nations

Arab’s across the Middle East and North Africa, forced Ben Ali to be exiled to Saudi Arabia after several weeks of protests against his authoritarian rule that had led to declining socioeconomic conditions as well as the corruption of the president’s extended family. As to why it is important to recognize the media role in shaping societies view on global politics, the use of media in Tunisia by the Arab Spring exposed a different side of Ben Ali; who was for most of his years ruling, a “convenient

Five years after the beginning of the ‘Arab Spring’, people are still questioning themselves whether any of the countries involved has had any positive outcome or if they ever will. Comparisons between the similarities and contrasts of the different states emerged with the very first agitations in the areas. Also nowadays, the international community risks to come up with generalised prophecies based on the worst scenarios. In fact, despite the original opposition to the authoritarian rule, common

On the 11th of June, 1963, a monk named Thích Quảng Đức burned himself alive on a busy Vietnamese intersection. An action that, in five months time, led to the assassination of the Buddhist-opposing president of the Republic of Vietnam. Self-immolation, a form of protest in which one sacrifices themselves, usually with fire, has returned, and has brought with it a multitude of issues. First, a bit of history, although the death of Thích Quảng Đức was the first documented case of self-immolation as

Wikileaks main goal has been finding the truth of topics wanted to be hidden to the public, and in this case their power was used to protect Tunisia. The procedure used to spread the truth may not be the most appropriate. It is the truth, and it will always be better to hear the crude reality than some beautiful lie. “The ends justify the means” –Niccolo Machiavelli. In some societies such as Tunisia, wikileaks has been so helpful that their fight has gone from virtual to physical. This is