Issue 3/2011
Upheaval Arabia
Events with a huge impact: on 4th January this year, the day when Mohamed Bouazizi from Tunisia self-immolated, it was impossible to predict what this act born of desperation would unleash. Since then – as we are all well aware - numerous Arab countries have been caught up in a wave of insurgencies and revolutions. Some of these were nipped in the bud, whilst others fed into an enduring protest movement and triggered regime change. A power structure that had long appeared unshakeable and largely resistant to change suddenly became fragile and unstable, with people risking their lives to contest it. The realisation that the massive upsurge of resistance to the authoritarianism so widespread in the region did not appear out of the blue makes intuitive sense, as does the awareness that this movement can de facto not be ascribed to individual a... » read more
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