Arab Spring
noun
: a series of anti-government uprisings affecting Arab countries of North Africa and the Middle East beginning in 2010
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Atwater said souring consumer sentiment could also lead to political unrest, such as during the Arab Spring, when an increase in global food prices was linked to protests, according to a 2011 study from the New England Complex Systems Institute.
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2025
Both were arrested and sentenced to death for crimes committed as teenagers during the Arab Spring, rights groups and people close to their families said.
—Muhammad Darwish, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
Work was later disrupted by the 2011 Arab Spring, before resuming in full in 2016.
—Ayat Al-Tawy, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2025
At the same time, social media has served as a reinvigorated source of transparency in recent weeks, harking back to the days when Twitter became an organizing tool during the Arab Spring, in the early twenty-tens, or when Facebook and Instagram helped fuel the Black Lives Matter marches of 2020.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2025
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2025
Both were arrested and sentenced to death for crimes committed as teenagers during the Arab Spring, rights groups and people close to their families said.
—Muhammad Darwish, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
Work was later disrupted by the 2011 Arab Spring, before resuming in full in 2016.
—Ayat Al-Tawy, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2025
At the same time, social media has served as a reinvigorated source of transparency in recent weeks, harking back to the days when Twitter became an organizing tool during the Arab Spring, in the early twenty-tens, or when Facebook and Instagram helped fuel the Black Lives Matter marches of 2020.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2025
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