10 Sep 2023
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... from Syria to Morocco in what became known as the Arab Spring in the early 2010s. But alas, when Saied appeared in a ... al-Assad and Egypt ’s Abdel Fatah al-Sisi during the Arab Summit this May, it clearly signalled Tunisia’s return ...
12 Jun 2022
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... happened. The role of the digital space in the Arab Spring would eventually become the subject of multiple ... whose story is a lesson for those of us who celebrate the Arab Spring and other revolutionary movements. El-Fattah ...
1 Dec 2021
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... been hailed as the one democratic success story of the Arab Spring – they still felt this despondent? Tunisia visibly ... Roman amphitheatre of El Jem. The seventh century Arab Muslim conquest converted many Tunisians to Islam, while ...
19 Sep 2021
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... and pineapples curve in along an inside track, as well as spring onions and lemongrass. The sandy soil is enriched with ...
23 Aug 2021
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... what is happening where they are – as we saw with the Arab Spring in the early 2010s. Yes, the internet has become a ...
18 Feb 2021
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... things have changed. Ten years ago, in the heyday of the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement, Twitter was seen as a ...
7 Jan 2021
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Photo: Jan-Peter Westad JW: At the start of the Arab Spring a decade ago you were working in tech start-ups; by ... voice for the movement. How did this happen? IB: The Arab Spring was a moment of awakening. Not just for me, but ...
29 Jul 2020
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... on their own turf? A crackdown on anti-corruption ‘Arab Spring’ protests in Sulaymaniyah in 2011, which left at ...
22 Jun 2020
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... in Northern Syria. ‘Olive Branch’ and ‘Peace Spring’ For years, the Erdoğan government in Turkey has ... of 2018. At the Manbij Women’s Assembly, ethnic Turkmen, Arab, Circassian and Kurdish women, who had lived under ISIS ... International Commission of the Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic states that ‘by targeting almost every aspect ...
21 Jun 2020
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... who have now become a small minority compared with the Arab and Turkman settlers, are subjected to violence on a ... under the cruelly inappropriate name of ‘Operation Peace Spring’. There were international cries of dismay and talk ... need in the region was great even before Operation Peace Spring and Covid-19. Today, a few international NGOs are ...
24 Dec 2019
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... Mostly rebellion has been regional as with the 2012 Arab Spring. What is unusual about protest in 2019 is the global ...
18 Nov 2019
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... for change from India’s Independence Movement to the Arab Spring. He concludes that any campaign is winnable in theory, ...