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In Tunisia, due to tourism coming to a halt and other factors during the revolution and Arab Spring movement, the budget deficit has grown and unemployment has risen since 2011. [352] According to the World Bank in 2016, "Unemployment remains at 15.3% from 16.7% in 2011, but still well above the pre-revolution level of 13%."
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 protests inspired similar actions throughout the Arab world, in a chain reaction which became known as the Arab Spring movement. Clashes during the revolution resulted in 338 deaths and 2,174 injuries. [25]
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 ...
The Syrian Revolution, [29] [30] also known as the Syrian Revolution of Dignity [b] was a series of mass protests and civilian uprisings throughout Syria – with a subsequent violent reaction by the Ba'athist regime – lasting from February 2011 to December 2024 as part of the greater Arab Spring in the Arab world. The revolution, which ...
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 ...
For one, external interventions in other Arab Spring revolutions like Libya spooked Beijing, which has long insisted on its principles of “non-interference” and “respect for sovereignty.”
The Second Arab Spring is a series of anti-government protests which took place in several Arab world countries from late 2018 onwards. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Iraq , the deadliest incident of civil unrest since the fall of Saddam Hussein resulted in its Prime Minister being replaced.