Essays on Arab Spring

Introduction

The Arab Spring occurs as one of the widely discussed topics in history. This can be attributed to the fact that the Arab Spring evolved into a significant global event in history. The Arab Spring can be traced to the beginning of the early twentieth century when revolts to topple over authoritarian regimes in the Middle East became the most adequate solution to dictatorship, which had defied global trends aligned with liberalisation of the populations. Worth noting is the fact that social media played a comprehensive role in enhancing the success of the Arab Spring. Precisely, social media platforms ...

A study of the Effects of Social Media on the Arab Spring; Syria case

The Arab Spring refers to the instance that characterized the North Africa and Eastern Europe. I this regard, the countries that border this region was characterized by repressions and war related instances that were targeting the respective governments in the specific countries. The counties covered in the Arab Spring include, Tunisia, Egypt and Sudan when it is related to Africa. On the other hand, the countries that comprise Eastern Europe are the likes of Tehran and Syria. It is referred to as the Arab spring because it center staged in the Arab world over a very short period (Wilson, ...

There is a reason as to why people behave in any manner. These reasons may be practically or theoretically explained as to their causes. Theoretically, behaviors can be explained using theories such as the relative deprivation theory and the frustration aggression theory. This paper identifies a social behavior i.e. a revolution and tries to explain it using the available theories. Precisely, the paper discusses the Arab Spring revolution and provides its details as related to the frustration-Aggression theory.
The Arab Spring is a pan-regional turbulence which affected the Arab countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Jordan, ...

English

Social networking as a sphere was introduced to the world around a decade ago, and in less than three years became an essential element of social life around the globe. And it is quite easy to understand the exact reason social networking boomed to its present scale. From a psychological point of view the need for social networking is a simple reflection of a vital need of every person, and that is to compensate the lack of real life communication with a virtual one. That might be one of the reasons the number of subscribers using the worldwide web ...

Since time in memorial, the world has always been divided into several different classifications that showcases the disparity between nations. The most common example is the division of nations based on their wealth and power or the First, Second, Third and Fourth Worlds. Others classify nations through their location in the Hemisphere, while the rest would just generalized based on their region. For centuries, it is often notable that the Western half of the world is portrayed as the dominant nations and news reports would showcase just how advanced these countries have now become. Even if there are instances ...

In December 2010, Tarek Mohammed Bouazizi, a street vendor in Tunisia set himself on fire to protest the humiliation he suffered at the hands of a police patrol officer who assaulted him in the street and police officials who refused to hear his complaint. Bouazizi’s death would not only be the catalyst for the overthrow of Tunisian President Zine Ben Ali but would also be the spark to the overthrow of governments in Libya, Egypt and Yemen as well as civil war, protests and popular agitation in over ten countries across North Africa and the Middle East. While ...

Social media technology played a pivot role of support to protesters in Egypt, Iraq, and Tunisia. I had discussed and described the issues in a report titled ‘Arab Springs’ hoping it would support the cause of protesters. Arab Spring had an excellent use with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in the mission. User-friendly approaches made active users to come together for organizing protests in humongous volumes. Cutting across language barriers voice from different languages got translated through ‘transliteration’ technology to reach across the world. Anonymous peaceful supporters extended their support giving worthwhile ideas. Based on worldwide response through the power ...

1. Why has the economy decreased in Egypt?
The economic downturn of Egypt attributes greatly to the ongoing Arab Spring protests, which first emerged in 2011 following the deposition of longtime president Hosni Mubarak. Having first gained power over Egypt in 1981, Mubarak has introduced a series of economic policies that eventually deprived feasible opportunities for Egyptians, in turn driving many of them towards poverty. Soon thereafter, lack of economic opportunities have led the Egyptian government with little sources of revenue, which would have been instrumental for the introduction of social services for aiding people against poverty.
2. Why ...

Lauri Laker. Arab Spring and Social Media Technology. 2013. Web. 10 May. 2014.
The article “Arab Spring and Social Media Technology” written by Lauri Laker describes the role of social media in social awakening of Arab youth in the Arab peninsula. The writer has covered different aspects of Arab spring including the phases of a revolution. In the article, the writer has projected the social media as a force to be reckoned with, as it has helped overthrowing number of dictatorships and monarchies during the Arab Spring. The article is a related to the given topic of Arab spring ...

Aside from its rich culture and history, the Middle East or the Arab region is also known for its complex political regimes and cultures that is often seen as a religious conformist system that differs from the widely practiced democratic Western system. These Arab regimes are also known for practicing autocratic rule, which is often criticized by the globe for its oppressive rule and the lack of concern to people’s rights and needs. Decades of struggle and continuous conflict marred the region, leaving many helpless against these powerful regimes. However, as the international community remained powerless over these ...

Emma Bonino’s article “The Arab Spring Label is over. The Arab struggle for a better future is not” is an investigative look at the success and the failures of the Arab spring that started in Tunisia in the month of December 2010. Bonino argues that while the Arab Spring would be perceived as a sudden outburst, it was a gradual process of simmering emotions on the people about the authoritarian regimes in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia and others. However, while looking at what happened in Egypt in the summer of 2013, one can almost certainly argue that while ...

Article Review

Leon T. Hadar writes that the Arab Spring consists of uprisings against the government which are triggered by economic hardships (Tunisia and Egypt), religious and ethnic tensions (Syria and Bahrain) and tribal rivalries (Yemen and Libya). He opines that the elections which would take place in Egypt and Tunisia would enhance the power of the Islamist parties and thus propagate the tension between Christian Copts and Muslims. The economic liberalization of these two nations has been threatened by demands of imposing governmental control over parts of the national economy. Tribal clashes in Yemen, Libya and sectarian tensions in Syria ...

Organizational Communications 504

The political upheavals that shook much of the Arab World when the Arab Spring first broke out in 2010 introduced the region to a political trend that has swept much of the world during the 20th century – democratization. Although the Arab World is, in many ways, a “late-bloomer” in terms of adopting democratic virtues, the fact that several people from Arab nations have expressed their dissent through manifestations distinct to the globalized world shows how globalization has opened the eyes of the people against authoritarian regimes (Smith &Gaviria, 2013). The mass demonstrations that toppled long-standing authoritarian figures in nations ...

Academic or Professional Institution

The spark which burgeoned Arab Spring in 2011 has presented the feasibility of democratization in Tunisia. Beyond the young “Tunisian street vendor” setting himself afire in protest demonstrations in 2011, one initial response of the government was to shut the Internet down (“Arab Spring Research Guide,” 2015). The influence of one relatively recent movement shortly after the first budding blossoms of Arab Spring, mass protests demanded the ousting of then-President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali (“Tunisia’s Arab Spring, Three Years on,” 2014). Three years after settling down a bit, the feasibility of democratization in Tunisia has faced a few ...

The Arab Spring and its Effect on the Arab Economy

Introduction
Without a doubt, the evolution of the Arab spring has indicated a challenge based on country’s political and economical long-standing notions of stability as it caused a crisis in not only different countries economies, but also political domain. This is because; it influenced the structures of democratization and economic growth of countries such as Libya Egypt, as well as Tunisia that experienced almost concurrently the effects of the Arab spring evolution. For many the Arab spring, remained as one of the drastic eruption of democracy movements that took place in the twenty first century across the Middle ...

Abstract

Revolution refers to the drastic changes in the governmental institution, which is carried out by the non-institutional forces. According to Theda Skocpol’s model of revolutions, the revolutions begin with the “Crisis of State” that is initiated by diverse international factors including the security and economic competition from the world. This condition of “crisis of state” is augmented by a second factor that involves the “Class Dominance” that identifies that which group will exploit the situation of revolution. These two basic factors bring about the social revolution. This research will highlight that the model elucidated by Skocpol is an ...

The Arab Springs and Karl Marx’s Theory of Capitalism

Introduction
Sociology resonates around analysis and observation of social relations. It goes further than that and explains occurrences in life and their remedies. In the field of sociology, Karl Marx occupies an important niche for his appreciated contribution in terms of analysing, explaining and predicting societal events and outcomes. One would remember that Karl Marx opposed the concept of capitalism and predicted that it would crumble down to socialism before finally settling on communism. Indeed, it is also historically recorded that Karl Marx was the face and father of communism. His original theory has been adjusted by contemporary versions ...

CMN598 Rhetoric of Social Issues

12-05-2014
Abstract
Advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and digital media have led to transformations in the way humans communicate and interact. One of the latest waves of the new media is a social media tool that have “introduced new communication patterns, created new forms of expression and stimulated wide civic participation” (Bardici, 2012). In the recent past, social media platforms have become important in driving social change. A case in point is the Arab Spring. In Egypt, for instance, social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were instrumental in fuelling the revolt that led to ...

The world has been witnessing the most striking uprisings of recent times in the Arab nations where the masses have united to channelize their protest against the baleful clutches of the governances which according to them aim to curb them of their basic human rights. The people have come forward and formed resistance in form of organizations and have decided to shake the authorities from the core in order to secure their human rights and rights as citizens of the land. They have got involved politically and have vowed not be step back until the demands are fulfilled. In ...

Accounting for Change - Monarchism, Oil, and the Coercive Apparatus

A few years after the Arab Spring began numerous protests from Middle East countries emerged. Many protests have failed to challenge their political leaders. However, in spite of these disenchantments, a golden opportunity is provided by the Arab Spring. Unrests in Arab countries have been endless and the revolution of Arab culture has been gradual. The presence of oil wealth and monarchism has reduced the likelihood of an uprising through the establishment of barriers to protest escalation. Tunisia and Egypt have had protests against bad leaders. These actions have played a significant part in determining the survival of their ...

Lebanon is one of the Arab countries that is characterized by its hold to sectarianism. This means that the country allows the co-existence of diverse kinds of religions within its territories unlike some Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia which 100% Islamic. At present, the majority of its population is Muslim (54% Muslims = 27% Sunnis and 27% Shias), about the second majority are the Christians (41%) and the rest (5%) constitute the minorities. The diversity in religion in Lebanon has significant effects to its political, social, and economic realm.
In order to understand how the religion plays a crucial ...

ENGL 131

Arabic Spring
The topic of Arab Spring matters a lot in today’s world as it changed the course of Arab world in a short span of time. The Arab Spring started in December 2010 and engulfed the entire Arab world in very short span of time. It overthrew the long established monarchies and dictatorship through public protests and demonstrations ably helped by the social media. Lauri Laker highlights in his article “Arab Spring and Social Media Technology” that the two main actors of the Arab spring, the Arab youth and social media, both worked in coordination against the ...

Introduction:

The region of Middle East has been marred by decades old dictatorial and authoritative rules and rulers. The people have been kept away from transparent and true government and in most of the cases democracy is either absent or sham. Syria and Egypt are two countries that exhibited nearly same outlook and had their rulers distant from the masses.
Most of the states in the region were single party states. With little or no place for the opposition forces in political spectrum, the country is a single party state. Syria was the front runner in this regard and it ...

Critically examine Robert Dahl’s notion of procedural minimum as essential features of democratic system.

The recent wave of democratization has presented a major conceptual challenge to scholars. Many countries have moved away from authoritarianism, with the application of democracy in many settings. Even though the new political regimes in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and former communist world share important attributes of democracy, many of them differ greatly from democracies in developed countries. Robert Dahl has made profound contribution in determining the essential features that constitute democracy. He came up with the notion of procedural minimum as an essential feature of democratic system.
Robert Dahl gives procedural minimum definition of democracy through his seven ...

Iran and Russia’s concerns with the Arab spring

Just like in many other governments across the globe, the outburst of the uprising witnessed in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya caught both the Russian and Iranian governments off guard. The Arab spring is a term that is used to refer to the revolutionary demonstrations that began in late 2010 in Tunisia and moved across the Arab world sweeping away the long ruling authoritarian governments in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. The response by both the Iranian and Russian governments to the eruption of Arab uprising in late 2010 could be argued to have been inconsistent and seemingly confusing.
The Russian ...

Robyn Wright has been considered by some as one of the best journalists covering the Arab world; the opinion is based on her several decades of writing about the region. Kakutani (2011) claims Wright has an intimate knowledge of the region and has the experience to write knowledgably on the subject (para. 5). Wright has traveled throughout the regions of the world where the Islam religion is the most popularly worshipped religion. From 1973 until now she has traveled to most of the fifty seven nations to report on explosive events which she describes as “wars, military coups, revolutions, ...

Impact of social media upon politics has facilitated propagation of free speech in society. Owing to this influence, several nations have witnessed closure of tyrannical dictatorship. The Arab Spring is one such example that exhibits the influence of social media in instigating mass protests. Widely tagged as the Facebook or Twitter revolution, scholars have analyzed over 3 million tweets, YouTube videos and more than thousands of blog posts, and revealed that the social media played a pivotal role in the Arab Spring. The week before Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned, daily tweets surmounted from 2,300 a day to ...

Social Justice and Political Revolution – The Case of the Arab Spring

Social Media Growth is a Facilitator of Free Speech, Social Justice and Political Revolution: The Case of the Arab Spring
Social media is acting as the harbinger of political and social change, especially in the Middle East. Since 2011, the use of social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube has grown manifolds with millions accessing them through mobile phones. As has been evident through the Arab Spring uprisings in other Arab countries, Egypt and Tunisia in particular, social networking sites can play a crucial role in spurring protests and bringing about planned and coordinated revolts. These revolts ...

The growth of the Internet in the early 1990s has witnessed an increase in the network population from the low millions to low billions in the last two decades. During this time, social media has played a critical role for civil society for many issues affecting the society. Social Media provides opportunities for users to engage in self-presentation of identity, talk to families, friends, and colleagues. Unlike the traditional network research, examining face-to-face relationships, the focus of social media research remains on individual-to-individual communications rather than on relationships or connections.
In general, most people treat Facebook as a channel ...

The problem that the United States is facing when it comes to terrorism is complex. However, one of the key issues concerning the United States is the fact that al-Qaeda, its primary terrorism concern, is an enemy unlike others the United States has faced in the past. The United States has always gone to war with nations, or with recognizable groups; however, today, the United States is not at war with al-Qaeda; at least, it is not solely at war with al-Qaeda, although it is fighting al-Qaeda in a variety of different ways.
After the September 11th, 2001 attacks ...

In recent news, the Middle East has been reported to have been under conflict as many protests and violence had been recorded against the leaders of their governments. Many of the protests concentrated on pushing for political, social, and economic reform while others wished for their governments to be changed entirely to introduce democracy and an open government. It is notable that the trend of protest and calls for reform had emerged after the successful revolution in Egypt wherein the Egyptian public protested against the continuous ruling of 29 year reigning President Hosni Mubarak. Arguably seen as the beginning ...

Introduction

The fictional plot of hunger games has provided its audience with enjoyment and entertainment. However, the same themes that were used in the three novels reflect some of the issues in our society. Of course there is no such thing in the society as the actual hunger games where children starve and fight to death. The topics in the novel however are close to some of the issues that people go through in life. This paper explores how hunger games is connected with the revolution in Arabic spring and real life. Hunger games is not just fictional but is ...

The Arabic Spring is a sequence of uprisings, demonstrations and armed revolts against the government that happened in the Arab Countries in the Middle East in the early 2010. These are revolutionary waves of protests and demonstrations, civil wars and riots in the Arab countries that began on 18th December 2010. A number of the protests occurred because of the problems of unemployment, dictatorship rule, rising prices, brutality of security forces, as well as corruption that led to the privatization of state parastatal in the states. The term ‘Arab Spring’ in 2011 was disseminated by the media to refer ...

In today’s world, the Internet pervades every aspect of life, from smartphones to streaming video. Every single human need for information or entertainment can be accessed with the push of a button, which creates a culture of immediacy that some people believe threatens societal development. However, it can be said that the Internet provides a bastion of information and communication that is unprecedented at any other point in history. This is found most clearly in the advent of social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter - these are hubs of information and modes of communication between millions ...

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The “Arab Spring” and Terrorism
Arab spring is an umbrella term used by the media, to denote the series of uprisings, which took place independently and spread across countries in the North Africa and the Middle East in 2011. It all started on the fateful day of December 18, 2010, when a so far unknown street vendor of Tunisia, called Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, when his cart was confiscated by the police. Nobody then thought that this would turn out into a history changing event, but that is what it exactly turned out to ...

The recent transition from authoritarianism to democracy by Muslim nations in the Middle East and North Africa has caused a lot of changes in the political, social and economic strata of these nations. Some of the nations that have experienced these changes include Iran, Iraq, Libya and the GCC. This paper intends to explain the effects and consequences of the Arab Spring on these nations both at local and international levels.
The first important effect of the Arab Spring on Iran, Iraq, and the GCC is that it has brought about more political stability and security. Bearing in mind ...

Introduction

The last decade has seen numerous changes in the political and social systems of the Middle East and North Africa. There is a common factor among the various nations in the Middle East and those of North Africa. They both share the Islamic religion, and they share common ideological and political views. Their leadership systems have also been directed by dictatorship rule and inheritable political positions for years.
It has been a common incidence to find government coups and political unrest in most parts of North Africa and the Middle East. Numerous political governments have been ousted in the ...

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Acknowledgement

The preparation of this thesis would not ...

Chapter One: What Kind of Equality Does Sharia Law Provide?

The Problem
Gender Imbalances in the Saudi Arabian Workforce. The Saudi labour market currently presents a series of impressive economic prospects for Saudi Arabia. Moves to improve the Saudi economy through diversification have since earmarked the necessity to raise the value of the Saudi labour market mainly through the improvement of their skills. Mainly possessing a petroleum-based economy bearing the ubiquitous label of being among the largest producers of oil in the world, Saudi Arabia recognizes the need to sustain its economic growth and development through means apart from a highly valuable yet depleting resource. The fact that diversification ...

Introduction

The Saudi labour market currently presents a series of impressive economic prospects for Saudi Arabia. Moves to improve the Saudi economy through diversification have since earmarked the necessity to raise the value of the Saudi labour market mainly through the improvement of their skills. Mainly possessing a petroleum-based economy bearing the ubiquitous label of being among the largest producers of oil in the world, Saudi Arabia recognizes the need to sustain its economic growth and development through means apart from a highly valuable yet depleting resource. The fact that diversification necessitates the departure from the usual skills involved in ...

Research Paper on

Arabic Spring with Special Focus on Egypt
Arab Spring started in December 2010 and engulfed the entire Arab peninsula in very short span of time. It overthrew the long established monarchies and dictatorship through public protests and demonstrations ably helped by the social media. The main actors in the Arab spring have been the Arab youth and social media and both in coordination fought against the corruption and poverty prevailing in Arab society (Lauri 2). Among many other Arab countries, Egypt has been one country where protestors achieved their goal of overthrowing Hosni Mubarak in a record short time ...

Discussion Paper: Review of Egypt in Crisis

Introduction
After more than 30 years of authoritarian rule under Hosni Mubarak, Egypt has finally moved towards democratization – a theme that is highly apparent during the so-called Arab Spring that caused massive uprisings and protests within the nation in 2011. With resounding calls for the establishment of free and fair elections following the ouster of Mubarak, Egyptians finally succeeded in electing their first-ever democratically elected leader in 30 years, Mohammed Morsi. Morsi, a leader of the Islamic political faction Muslim Brotherhood, won the elections not through a landslide victory, but rather through a mandate highly skeptical over his opponent, ...

The concept of net neutrality states that governments and internet service providers should treat data on the internet with no discrimination. Data should be treated equally despite the user, content, site, application, attached equipment and mode of communication. Critics argue that data discrimination of some type is not problematic but rather highly desirable. Opponents of net neutrality are of the opinion that the best solution to discrimination done by broadband providers is encouraging a larger competition among providers that is limited in many areas. The Federal Communications Commission is making new rules that will permit internet service providers to ...

Introduction

The rise of the Spring Revolution in Egypt marked a new discussion of the role that social media has played in creating political and social mobilization. Until then, the use of social media was entirely described as bringing people from different parts of the world together to socialize and update one another on the various cultural and social activities around them. Social media is the current social trend that almost every person is using to get keep up with the current events and also interact with friends and families.
However, after the 2011 protests in most Middle East and ...

Introduction

Social media is the current social trend that almost every person is using to get keep up with the current events and also interact with friends and families. It has also been used to provide information and persuade individuals to participate in certain activities as seen in the Arab Spring Revolution of 2011. From the statistical records by these social cites, Facebook users in Egypt had doubled during the Spring Revolution and even after the sites were temporarily blocked.

Problem statement

The continuous use of social media has left many researchers contemplating on the role of social media in social mobilization ...

Abstract

The emergence and spread of the Arab Spring Revolution has depended heavily on the use of internet and social media to pass on information and create awareness on the need for political revolution that creates the presence of democracy in the Arab countries. According to the rise in the number of social media users such as Facebook and Twitter in Egypt indicates that the political activists and rioters depended on the social media to immobilize people and also to plan and execute rallies and riots with the aim of bringing political changes. The aim of this research is to ...

POLITICAL HISTORY

What is the relationship between country size and trade and will existence of many small countries promote or inhibit trade?
Country size is a highly relevant factor as far as trade is concerned. A large country will entail more internal trade. Presence of many small countries will promote external trade as the small countries will seek goods they do not produce (Palmer, p.134). The existence of countries in large units will promote both internal and external trade as these countries will be able to produce a wider variety of goods for example North American countries.

Definitions of communism socialism and capitalism

Communism is a socialist ...

The current digitalized era continues to see the magic of technology that is governing almost every aspect of life. From shopping to business transactions, everything is now a matter of few clicks. The advent of cell phones, tablets and other gadgets have converged the various forms of media to be easily accessible which serves the purpose of information, education and entertainment. While talking about the various forms of media, the current mode which is seen to host a lot of power is the internet merely because of the fact that it is not only a source of accessing information, ...

Obviously, the Arab Spring has completely undone US foreign policy in an area where the United States was once quite powerful and dominant especially after the 9/11 incident. Liberal forces in several Arab countries have managed to come out with impassioned revolts against their respective dictators such as Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt.

The immediate reaction to the 9/11 incident was an attack on Afghanistan and Iraq which had dire consequences for US foreign policy in the sense that it was a terrible reaction to an event which changed the world. The US’ belligerent foreign ...

Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

Introduction
In the ongoing issue that the country has dealt with in the issue of terrorism, we as a country have been a force to deter from our normal lives and focus on the safety of the nation. The two Jihad organization are the most dangerous group there is in the world that can affect the way of life. In the current time knowing that this organization is out there people should do what is necessary to find out the difference between the two groups. The ongoing problem that these two organization have brought terror and hate too countries ...

Abstract

The 2011 revolution in Egypt saw the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak and the end of his thirty years rule of Egypt. His overthrow was partly facilitated by the military which soon appointed an interim President. Democratic elections the next year saw the election of Morsi from the Muslim Brotherhood. But he was in power for only a year when a military coup deposed him. Ever since Egypt had under been a military rule with General Sisi as its current president. Egypt has long been a country which has been ruled by military strongmen and is a country where the ...

Abstract

This paper considers the problems, such as how sexual harassment and flirting become interchangeable in a social context and lead to suppression of sexual harassment, when there are no significant definitions that delineate them. It also shows the need to have such a definition in a culture that has not been able to give women an equality status in the society. By observations and collating anecdotal data, a survey of the factors that could potentially be regarded as crossing over the line of flirtations and treading on sexual harassment are listed. Offline and Online encounters are considered for this ...

The Rise and fall of the "Occupy" Movement

Societies have evolved with time caused by the ever dynamic and changing needs of mankind due to a variety of factors-- these changes have, in turn, resulted in demands in policies and structures that have impacted on the society in either positive or negative ways. As a result, there have been sociological developments and reactions towards these changes across many parts of the world. It has either approved or disapproved such changes such as observed through actions in mass movement occupations among many other methods. Many prominent thinkers have postulated that the growing difference between the rich and the ...

The military controls much of the political and economic state of Egyptian affairs. Throughout history, the images of Egypt's revolution show that the Egyptian military supported the civil disobedience in Tahrir Square. The recent events in Egypt show that Egyptian military forces maintain opposition to terrorism. Some Egyptians believe that the Muslim Brotherhood can gain unity amongst the Islamic countries in the future and create a united country and free Palestine. However, the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), brought the military body to avow a peaceful conversion of authority within a democratic ...

Currently, there is confusion about China's role in the Middle East and its relations with Saudi Arabia. In lights of developments (the Arab Spring) that have swept recently in the Middle East and North Africa , the spotlight on China-Saudi relations is of great significance, as it will help in understanding China's role in the Arab world. Additionally there are doubts among many of the ruling elite in the Middle East in general and Saudi Arabia in particular, about the United States' credibility as a strategic ally after they witnessed the speed at which the American administration abandoned its allies ...

Arab spring is the series of mass street protests, revolutions and internal armed conflicts in several Arab countries, which began in late 2010 in Tunisia and continuing in some countries today. The impetus for the beginning of the protests was the self-immolation of Tunisian street fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi on 18 December 2010. His self-immolation was the protest against the tyranny of the police, who confiscated his goods. Consequently, in Tunisia began mass protests that led to the resignation of the president of Ben Ali on 14 January 2011. The success of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia gave impetus ...

Currently, there is confusion about China's role in the Middle East and its relations with Saudi Arabia. In lights of developments (the Arab Spring) that have swept recently in the Middle East and North Africa , the spotlight on China-Saudi relations is of great significance, as it will help in understanding China's role in the Arab world. Additionally there are doubts among many of the ruling elite in the Middle East in general and Saudi Arabia in particular, about the United States' credibility as a strategic ally after they witnessed the speed at which the American administration abandoned its allies ...

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            Social networking websites form a contemporary medium of communication whereby people from all over the world can interact, make friendship, share ideas and discuss some issues that affect the dynamics of the world we live today. These sites are referred to as social media. Such websites are, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Google + among others. Various opinions are harbored by various individuals, organizations as well as governments on the importance, influence and impact of social networking websites on the contemporary society. Some find social media vital in the circulation of information while others frown on the great influence it has ...

The Arab Spring which began in Tunisia snowballed and among the countries that were affected is Syria. However, the events in Syria hardly followed the same course as the events in other countries affected by the Arab Spring. This was because, in most of these countries, the clamor for regime change by the citizens resulted in the removal from power of their then leaders. This was the case in Egypt with the ouster of the then President Hosni Mubarak and in Libya with the ouster of the then President Muammar Gaddafi after an approximately six months civil war in ...

Introduction

The dramatic events of the so called “Arab Spring” are still unfolding in many parts of the Middle East. Syria is still experiencing this wave even though it is entering its fourth year of this uprising which has evolved to the point of a civil war. The Sunni-dominated civil uprising in Syria has taken dramatic shift as it has failed to bring down President Bashar al- Assad regime, unlike other Arab countries where the toppling of regimes took place swiftly. President Bashar al- Assad’s family has ruled Syria for forty years. Assad is from the minority group or ...