Here is a draft of the countries that will be shown on my interactive map. I’m just going to leave descriptions of what I’ll have on the map. The descriptions will explain what happened in each of these countries during the Arab Spring.
Tunisia Revolution:
– happened over a 28 day period
– street demonstrations which led to an ousting of the president
– end result was a democracy and free & democratic elections
– cause by high unemployment rate, food inflation, lack of political freedom, income inequality
– riots in Tunisia were rare because the country is well off in comparison to neighboring countries
– the revolution that started it all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisian_Revolution
Egypt
– “We Are All Khaled Said” facebook page sparked a lot of controversy
– “the role of new media that made this death particularly salient”
– at the protests, the people chanted “the people want to bring down regime”
– sought change in a regime because of corruption, police brutality, media censorship, unemployment, and inflation
– violence between protestors and police led to 846 deaths
– president was removed from office on 2/11/2011
– results: islamic groups could legally form political parties
https://rlp.hds.harvard.edu/faq/arab-spring-egypt
Syria
– peaceful protest started in 2011 that has now spiraled into ongoing conflict
– revolutions in syria started in march 2011, 2 months after tunisian revolution
– syrian government is incredibly violent in response…they send tan
https://guides.library.cornell.edu/arab_spring/Syria
Libya
– uprising belongs in February 2011
– armed revolt against Gaddafi
– Gaddafi went on a run and was captured and killed
– a pluralist, democratic state was established
– *basically a war
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12482311
(this website also has information on all of the countries I am including)
Yemen
– yemen’s president was the fourth arab leader to be removed from power
– an estimate of 200-2000 people dead (not sure why this range exists)
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