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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Initially, protestors who were inspired by the region-wide ‘Arab Spring’ movement, demanded that the government, which has been led by Bashar Al-Assad since 2000, enact legislative reforms and release political prisoners.
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Rory Fleming, CNN, 18 July 2024
But the Arab Spring protests of 2010-11 forced the Saudi government to confront the fact that rising youth unemployment could no longer only be addressed by providing public-sector jobs.
—Jennifer Peck, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2024
The Arab Spring of 2011, which came after Iran’s massive pro-democracy Green Movement and upended governments across the Middle East and North Africa, also gave the clerical regime an advantage.
—Reuel Marc Gerecht, Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2023
Mubarak, who was ousted during the Arab Spring in 2011, was also convicted for inciting the killings of protesters—though he was acquitted of that crime and released in 2017.
—Koh Ewe, TIME, 31 May 2024
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Rory Fleming, CNN, 18 July 2024
But the Arab Spring protests of 2010-11 forced the Saudi government to confront the fact that rising youth unemployment could no longer only be addressed by providing public-sector jobs.
—Jennifer Peck, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2024
The Arab Spring of 2011, which came after Iran’s massive pro-democracy Green Movement and upended governments across the Middle East and North Africa, also gave the clerical regime an advantage.
—Reuel Marc Gerecht, Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2023
Mubarak, who was ousted during the Arab Spring in 2011, was also convicted for inciting the killings of protesters—though he was acquitted of that crime and released in 2017.
—Koh Ewe, TIME, 31 May 2024
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