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Jasmine Revolution Arab Spring: Egypt's January 25 Revolution Yemen Uprising of 2011–12 Benghazi, Libya: protests in 2011 Large crowd of anti-Syrian regime protesters fills a street in Homs, many holding placards and waving old national flags during a funeral procession. Yemeni demonstrators in Sanaa calling for an end to the government of Pres. ʿAlī ʿAbd Allāh Ṣāliḥ in January 2011.
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Yemeni demonstrators in Sanaa calling for an end to the government of Pres. ʿAlī ʿAbd Allāh Ṣāliḥ in January 2011.
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Jasmine Revolution Demonstrators in the capital city of Tunis sitting on a wall where “Free at last” was written after the popular unrest of the Jasmine Revolution forced Tunisian Pres. Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to step down, January 2011.

Arab Spring

Middle Eastern-North African history
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Arab Spring, wave of pro-democracy protests and uprisings that took place in the Middle East and North Africa beginning in 2010 and 2011, challenging some of the region’s entrenched authoritarian regimes. The wave began when protests in Tunisia and Egypt toppled their regimes in quick succession, inspiring similar attempts in other Arab countries. Not every country saw success in the protest movement, however, and demonstrators expressing their political and economic grievances were often met with...

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