The Arab Uprising. The Islamic Awakening. These are some of the terms that are being used today. The terms are very important especially in the Middle East because that’s where the arab uprising began. The first Arab Uprising actually began in Tunisia where a 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire. He set himself on fire in front of a government building because he was publicly humiliated by the police force and couldn’t even earn money for his family. This act of desperation had spread immediately throughout the country and stirred up many protests. These protesters in Tunisia had one interest, which is for President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his regime to immediately step down and surprisingly he had fled a month later. Since 2011, Tunisia is not the only country that has been protesting and demanding for the regime to step down, this has also affected other countries such as Egypt, Libya, and even one of the richest countries, Bahrain. Bahrain is considered to be one of the richest countries in the Middle East along with five other nations; Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. These six nations also form Gulf Cooperation Council known as GCC and are ruled by Sheikhs for over a long period of time. Bahrain’s uprising began in the beginning of February with demonstrations demanding for answers. Ordinary people assume that Middle East strongly desires for “democracy” and yes that is entirely true but there are other important factors that play a huge role in this. Bahranis at this point demand for answers and achieve their goals. However, let’s look back and see what triggered to have demonstrations where this country is considered to be one of the richest ones especially in a sectarian governmen...
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...the Bahrain’s territorial borders. The job of the Peninsula Shield Force was to assist the Bahrain Defense Force in terms of any confrontation by an unusual armed intervention. In addition, the task was also to protect and secure important locations in the country and not engage in any operation involving confrontations from the Bahraini civilians and different riots. However, strangely the Commission didn’t find any evidence of human rights violations used by the units that were deployed on March 14, 2011. Before the outbursts of demonstrations, the Crown Prince had promised reforms that would prevent negative consequences. These reforms were discussed on political, social, and economy to ensure that people were satisfied but these reforms were rejected by the opposition because the people in the party believed that they could gain political goals through streets.
Washington University, author Marc Lynch pens a work he titled The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East to dispel thoughts and misconceptions that unrest in the Middle East, particularly in the areas of political and social mobilizations, are in fact a new phenomenon. Utilizing his wealth of experience within the Middle East and topics pertaining to it, Lynch choose to analyze what lead to the downfall of four of the Middle East’s regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and
regime in the area. Social media got a lot of attention during the Arab uprising. Some studies gave the social media major credit for being platform for starting, guiding the civil revolutions, and playing a significant role in the uprisings. While other studies proved that social media did not deserve glorification. this article discuss the two views and try to analyze the facts in order to reach a satisfied conclusion for whether Arab spring needed the social media to spark it or not. Many people
amusement, the political upheavals in the Arab world have shown how it can change the dynamics of modern day activism. The Arab Spring Uprising interlaced social unrest with a technological revolution. Blogs, news websites, twitter feeds, and political list servers became avenues for communication, information flow and solidarity. Being capable of sharing an immense amount of uncensored information through social media sites has contributed to the success of many Arab Spring activists. Social media played
The Arab Spring: Why has the Arab Spring produced different results across the Middle East? In the Arab world in late 2010, starting in Tunisia and flowering in Egypt, a movement of people frustrated by their governments, corrupt leaders and a lack of jobs suddenly felt safe to take to the streets. The Arab Spring began when a young Tunisian man set himself on fire to protest government corruption and poor economic conditions. This action inspired a wave of protests across Tunisia, which
Political uprisings in the Middle East, especially in Muslim nation states have placed Arabian politics back on the focus point of international politics. Political events in certain Arab countries had an excessive impact on the political development of other neighboring states. Resistances and anxieties within different Arab countries triggered unpredictable actions, sometimes sorely to observe and believe. The authoritarian governments of Arabian countries led from various dictators have created
“The main legacy of the Arab Spring is in smashing the myth of Arabs’ political passivity and the perceived invincibility of arrogant ruling elites” (Manfreda). This quote basically summarizes the goal and reason behind the Arab Spring. The general aim of the Spring was targeted toward Arab dictatorships (due to the belief that they held rigged elections), the police force and their brutal ways of handling things, the high unemployment rates and basic corruption within the regions (Manfreda). The
agreed to support Arab independence and unity in all Ottoman lands in the Middle East. This was promised in exchange for an Arab uprising against the Ottomans, which did in fact happen. The last of these promises was the Balfour declaration, in which the British promised the Zionist movement a national home in Palestine. All these agreements overlapped with regards to Palestine. The British took control over the territory after the war, but they still made promises to both Arabs and Zionists in the
Syrian Civil War The ongoing civil war in Syria was directly influenced by “Arab Spring” and has very disastrous consequences for most of the possible outcomes. The “Arab Spring” is a revolutionary surge of protests amid many Middle East countries. The general public has revolted against their own government and some of them have successfully forced their ruler from power, which proved to Syrians that change was possible. The revolutionary countries that gave the Syrian public these ideas of change
war led to a new Palestinian self-identity, something that was missing for years prior to the war. The Six-Day War for the Palestinians was what the pogroms in Russia and the Dreyfus affair were for the Zionists. At the end of war, Palestinians under Israeli occupation started to form its own national identity, something that will lead to two deadly uprisings and many attacks against No Israeli government agreed to recognize the PLO under Yasser Arafat’s leadership as the Palestinian people representative
views of two different nations, that of Jews and Arabs, coincide to create a very volatile conflict that has run its course for nearly a whole century. A “nation” is defined as a group with a common culture, language, folkways, and values. A “state” refers to a government in control of territory and population. For example, Israel is a state and a nation since it consists mainly of Jews. However, Palestine is a nation because it consists of Arabs with a common culture, but not a State, since the
revolution seemed quick and effective; therefore, people elsewhere decided to revolt because they thought that putting the regime down was the ultimate goal of the protests. People wanted change and they wanted it fast. The rapid transformation of the Arab world has led to an extreme anarchy and more economic instability; this is why contemporary revolutions may be pointless. To conclude, The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran provides an unusual way to look at social movements. This analysis of the Iranian
Cyber activism during the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions “They are both ONE uprising. One world, one revolution. Often people think in terms of “Contagion” or something. But, in reality, we have been ready, we people of the Internet, for a revolution to start anywhere in the Arab world. We’ve been supporting each other and trying hard since a long time, and you know how important Internet was for the revolution” replied, the Tunisian Minister of Youth and Sports , Slim Amamou when asked about
Libya peacefully protested against the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who violently retaliated and this led to what the world now refers to as the Libyan conflict. This conflict was one of the many that were apart of the chain of uprisings that spread across the Middle East by civilians trying to gain freedom from their governments. These uprisings were known as the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring started in Tunisia when a man set himself on fire in front of a government building in protest to the actions
French’s mandate over Syria after World Ware One had an irrevocable impact on the nations’s communal factions. The mandate lasted from 1920-1946 and they begun their rule with intentionally made sectarian divisions. They were made in order to prevent Arab nationalism and stifle national independence movements. The divisions were made my religious and national minority. Granting the minorities independent status locations where they make up the majority. For example, there was a large population of
part, the history creates what we see today and shaped the living of the people. Human civilization is one of the cause of wars, battles, uprisings, and revolutions. In Cleveland and Bunton book, he mentioned that in order to understand the recent uprisings in Arab countries like Tunisia, Egypt and others, we need to reflect to the history of Europe in general (Cleveland & Bunton, 2017, p.538). The European history has a lot to do with the modern Middle East. The uprisings in Egypt have made changes