June 19, 2013
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Description
The Arab Spring is the media term for the revolutionary wave of nonviolent and violent demonstrations, violent and nonviolent protests, riots, and civil wars in the Arab world that began on 18 December 2010.
To date, rulers have been forced from power in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen; civil uprisings have erupted in Bahrain and Syria; major protests have broken out in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Sudan; and minor protests have occurred in Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, and Western Sahara.
There were border clashes in Israel in May 2011, and the protests in Iranian Khuzestan by the Arab minority erupted in 2011 as well. Weapons and Tuareg fighters returning from the Libyan civil war stoked a simmering conflict in Mali which has been described as "fallout" from the Arab Spring in North Africa. The sectarian clashes in Lebanon were described as a spillover violence of the Syrian uprising and hence the regional Arab Spring. In September 2012, a wave of social protests by Palestinians demanded lower consumer prices and resignation of the Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad.
(via Freebase)
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![Yemeni and Syrian demonstrators unify Friday's call for 'victory' [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-312000/312176/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=006af543ef16558171643a8c78899042)
![The 'Arab Spring' creating a fertile ground for Western investment opportunities [Alsumaria, Iraq]](/images/image_cache/base-311000/311840/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=3d65f6c8a8011c68bd92b34551c13e51)
![How will Libya affect Yemen? [ANB, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-311000/311803/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=2672503efdc81dcaecb359220404dbe0)
![Turkey's evolving relations with Syria [ANB, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-311000/311407/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=fdde6ec9e06a78aba0fab43b9e63dc28)
![Oman demonstrators demand political reform, trial of officials [Press TV, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-311000/311193/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=44e70da975cd5e5778682ff72efd7126)
![The role of the ME's military institutions in the 'revolutions' [Al Jazeera, Qatar]](/images/image_cache/base-311000/311356/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=9c24d823b1eaad072216b55b17344ece)
![Tunisian PM condemns violence [Dubai TV, UAE]](/images/image_cache/base-262000/262726/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=6563dd3e16e52dff1559564f97e46ef9)
