What started the Arab Spring?

Within days, protests started popping up across the country, calling upon President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his regime to step down. About a month later, he fled. The momentum in Tunisia set off uprisings across the Middle East that became known as the Arab Spring. read more

The Arab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي ‎ ar-Rabīʻ al-ʻArabī), also referred to as Arab Revolutions (Arabic: الثورات العربية ‎ aṯ-'awrāt al-ʻarabiyyah), was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups, foreign interventions, and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution. read more

The Arab Spring started in Tunisia in late 2010, when a self-immolation of a street vendor in a provincial town of Sidi Bouzid sparked mass anti-government protests. Unable to control the crowds, president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to flee the country in January 2011 after 23 years in power. read more

On 22 November 2012 Egyptian protests started, with mere thousands of protesters demonstrating against Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, after less than 20% of the population being dissatisfied with his way of governance. read more

The "Arab Spring"is a term coined by western media for the demonstrations, uprisings, civil unrest and call of the public in many Middle Eastern countries against dictatorial regimes that deny the people basic economic and human rights. read more

The Arab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي ‎ ar-Rabīʻ al-ʻArabī), also referred to as Arab Revolutions (Arabic: الثورات العربية ‎ aṯ-'awrāt al-ʻarabiyyah), was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups, foreign interventions, and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution. read more