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Arab Spring

The Arab Spring (Arabicالربيع العربي‎ ar-Rabīʻ al-ʻArabī), also referred to as Arab Revolutions (Arabicالثورات العربية‎ aṯ-'awrāt al-ʻarabiyyah), was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrationsprotestsriotscoupsforeign interventions, and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution. (Read the rest on Wikipedia)


Protesters in Tunisia (January 2011) (Source)

Arab Spring pro-democracy protests (Britannica)

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Mohammed Mahmud Street Wall. 21 of February 2012 -- Image by M. Abaza (Source)