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Arab Spring 2.0: Five lessons from 2011 for today s protesters
From Algeria to Iraq to Lebanon, demonstrators are calling for change. What can the events of the 2011 uprisings teach them?
The Arab Spring saw protests across Tunisia, Syria and Libya among others (left of photo) from 2010. More recently, protests have taken place in Iraq, Algeria and Lebanon (right of photo). (AFP, Reuters, Creative commons) By Published date: 16 December 2020 12:03 UTC | Last update: 3 months 2 weeks ago
On 17 December 2010, Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi, humiliated by years of police harassment, set himself on fire in the city of Sidi Bouzid - a solitary act of protest that sparked a wave of anti-authoritarian uprisings across the region.