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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Little wonder authoritarian states were spurred by the Arab Spring into enacting draconian internet controls.
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
An example of this is the Anonymous hacktivist group supporting WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring.
—Carlos Morales, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
From the establishment of the National Assembly shortly after independence in 1961 to the country’s invasion by Iraq in the 1990s and the upheavals of the Arab Spring in 2011, parliamentary politics has been important in Kuwait.
—Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Arriving in 2014 – after earning the wrath of the Egyptian government for covering the Arab Spring as a freelance journalist – one of Greater Cincinnati’s newest immigration detainees has lived in Oregon, Chicago and Cincinnati.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 11 July 2025
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
An example of this is the Anonymous hacktivist group supporting WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring.
—Carlos Morales, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
From the establishment of the National Assembly shortly after independence in 1961 to the country’s invasion by Iraq in the 1990s and the upheavals of the Arab Spring in 2011, parliamentary politics has been important in Kuwait.
—Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Arriving in 2014 – after earning the wrath of the Egyptian government for covering the Arab Spring as a freelance journalist – one of Greater Cincinnati’s newest immigration detainees has lived in Oregon, Chicago and Cincinnati.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 11 July 2025
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“Arab Spring.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Arab%20Spring. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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