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In Egypt and other parts of the Arab world, the protests and governmental changes are also known as the 25 January Revolution (ثورة 25 يناير Thawrat 25 Yanāyir), Revolution of Freedom (ثورة حرية Thawrat Horeya) [40] or Revolution of Rage (ثورة الغضب Thawrat al-Ġaḍab), and, less frequently, [41] the Youth Revolution ...
2010 December Protests arose in Tunisia following Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation. On 29 December, protests begin in Algeria 2011 January Protests arose in Oman, Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, & Morocco. The government was overthrown in Tunisia on 14 January 2011. On 25 January 2011, thousands of protesters in Egypt gathered in Tahrir Square, in Cairo. They demanded the resignation of ...
The Arab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي, romanized: ar-rabīʻ al-ʻarabī) or the First Arab Spring (to distinguish from the Second Arab Spring) was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s.
The earlier organizers called for a new protest in what was dubbed the "Day of Egypt's Love". (Arabic: يوم حب مصر). [233] Over a million people gathered in and around Tahrir Square to demonstrate. [231] At least 1,000 went to the parliament to demand Mubarak's resignation while others went to the Shura Council and the Council of ...
The rise of the Arab Spring has yet one more one setback. As an outsider, passing judgment is often difficult and likely too biased to offer much insight. What is obvious is that from an outsider ...
Egypt's Arab Spring revolutionaries went a full circle. From overthrowing the authoritarian regime, through combining with its preserved establishment in trying to prevent elections, or prevent the implementation of the (unpalatable to the reformers and establishment) election results.
During the Arab Spring, Bahrain has been condemned both for its Internet censorship and its actions against bloggers and "netizens" (a word that combines "citizen" and "Internet" to refer to a user of the Internet). [42] On 2 April 2011 Bahraini authorities detained blogger Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri. Al-Ashiri ran a news website that ...
As Ekaterina Stepanova argues in her study concerning the role of information and communications technologies in the Arab Spring, social networks largely contributed to political and social mobilisation but didn't play a decisive and independent role in it. Instead, social media acted as a catalyst for revolution, as in the case of Egypt, where ...