While the Arab Spring uprisings ignited simmering discontent across many nations in the Middle East, Western media was quick to celebrate them for symbolizing a ‘hope for democracy.’ Five years after the upheavals that transformed the political l...
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While the Arab Spring uprisings ignited simmering discontent across many nations in the Middle East, Western media was quick to celebrate them for symbolizing a ‘hope for democracy.’ Five years after the upheavals that transformed the political l...
Of all the countries affected by the Arab Spring, Tunisia has long been lauded as the movement’s one success. When Mohammed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old fruit vendor, set fire to himself in protest of the government confiscation of his weighing scales (...
Of all the countries affected by the Arab Spring, Tunisia has long been lauded as the movement’s one success. When Mohammed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old fruit vendor, set fire to himself in protest of the government confiscation of his weighing scales (...
Although it recently snowed in Cairo for the first time in over 112 years, an Arab spring may still be blooming, with the new Tunisian Constitution as its centerpiece. The Tunisian National Constituent Assembly (NCA) ratified a new constitution almo...
Although it recently snowed in Cairo for the first time in over 112 years, an Arab spring may still be blooming, with the new Tunisian Constitution as its centerpiece. The Tunisian National Constituent Assembly (NCA) ratified a new constitution almo...