Welcome to the ARAB SPRING!

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Welcome to the ARAB SPRING!

• What is it, what do the people want, and what is
  going on?

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LEADER Tunisia -President Ben Ali

• President 1987-2011
• 23 years
• Demands/Requests-
• Tunisians were angry over high unemployment, food
  inflation, and government corruption
• Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire (Martyr)

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The PEOPLE Outcome in Tunisia

• First protests inspiring the Arab Spring
• President fled the country after 23 years
• International arrest warrant, charging him for
  money laundering and drug trafficking
• Sentenced to life imprisonment-Living in Saudi
  Arabia in exhile

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LEADERPresident Hosni Mubarak of Egypt

• Provided stability for Egypt for 30 years
• Peace with Israel, no violent attacks on either
  side
• Stability for foreigners
• Cracks down on religious extremists and
  terrorists
• Economic success
• Re-elected by majority votes

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The PEOPLE Egypt

• Ruled for with an iron fist for 30 years.
• Under Mubarak
• Police can arrest people without charge
• Police torture and cruelty
• Detain prisoners indefinitely
• Security forces
• Limited freedoms (speech/expression/assembly)
• Corruption
• Monopoly on power
• No free and fair elections
• Opposed to workers rights
• No one can run against him in elections
• Legalized censorship
• Family wealth between 40-70 billion
• http//video.nytimes.com/video/2011/01/25/world/mi
  ddleeast/1248069586905/day-of-anger-in-egypt.html
  (Anger in Egypt 202)

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OUTCOME in Egypt

• Mubarak is overthrown
• Democratic Elections held- Member of the Muslim
  Brotherhood Elected
• New Leader overthrown and new elections held

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LEADERPresident Colonel Qaddafi of Libya

• Longest serving leader of Libya- 42 years and
  rules with an iron fist.
• provide stability to country
• Brought popular democracy to Libya
• Focused on education and Islamic morals
• Great Manmade River- largest freshwater pipeline

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The PEOPLE Libya

• Under his rule
• Garbage in streets
• Poor infrastructure
• High unemployment (30)
• Controls the media
• Uses violence against the people
• He and his family have accumulated over 60
  billion
• Killed Libyan dissidents abroad
• Police crackdowns
• Watch for OUTCOME
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vd5dF1QnqnFc (ABC
  News on death 347)

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The POWERAli Abdullah Saleh al-Hashidi of Yemen

• Protested for him to resign after short three
  years.
• lacked of democratic reform
• widespread corruption
• human rights abuses were carried
• out by him and his allies.
• injured by a rocket attack on his palaces mosque
  during prayer.

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The PEOPLEYemen

• Under his presidency
• Government security forces are
• killing of civilians
• Using excessive force
• arbitrarily detaining citizens
• torturing and ill treating citizens with things
  like suffocation.
• Checkpoints
• Disruption of utilities such as gas and water.
• Bombings of neighbors by military
• http//video.nytimes.com/video/2011/09/19/world/mi
  ddleeast/100000001062499/timescast-protesters-kill
  ed-in-yemen.html
• http//video.nytimes.com/video/2011/01/27/world/mi
  ddleeast/1248069592784/yemenis-demand-change-of-go
  vernment.html (protests in Yemen 130)

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The POWERBashar al-Assad of Syria

• Wants unity between government, state
  institutions and the people.
• Created a constitution that allows demonstrations
• Is open to any suggestions by the people
• Believes in a strength of the Syrian citizens and
  their all participation where they know their
  rights and their place.

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The People Syria

• Military conducts military and policing
  operations
• Attacks on peaceful protesters occurring at an
  alarming rate (no one has been tried for these
  attacks)
• Paying high taxes
• Average person earns about 250.00 a month
• High unemployment, many people actually travel to
  Lebanon where they are treated extremely bad
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vXMtczLMjmaU
  (Syrian Conflict in 5 Minutes)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vH_hhpGSZi84
  (interview with Charlie Rose 800)

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Extra Syrian Videos

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vw_88DhYEAzU
  Overview 230
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vSOzA0z_c0rk
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v4yosvahug9Efeature
  relmfu (crimes)
• http//upfront.scholastic.com/issues/04_22_13/book
  /12 Upfront Overview 234
• http//abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/syria-crisis-gover
  nment-attacks-continue-15528025 (110)
• http//upfront.scholastic.com/issues/09_17_12/book
  /16 208
• http//edition.cnn.com/video/?hpthp_c3/video/wor
  ld/2012/09/25/intv-syria-suffering-children.cnn
  Children in Syria 331

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What about the PEOPLE?What do they want?

• Human rights
• Democracy
• Freedom from a dictator
• Fair Economic Opportunities

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The Situation in the Middle East

• Syria-Civil War
• Civil uprisings against the governments of Syria
  and Bahrain, despite government changes.
• Kuwait, Lebanon and Oman implementing government
  changes in response to protests.
• Morocco, Jordan implementing constitutional
  reforms in response to protests.
• Ongoing protests in Algeria, Iraq, and other
  countries.

• Tunisia- President Ben Ali ousted, and government
  overthrown.
• Egypt- President Hosni Mubarak ousted, and
  government overthrown. Continued popular protest
  against military provisional government.
• Libya- Muammar Gaddafi killed after a civil war
  with foreign military intervention, and
  government overthrown.
• Yemen-President Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down
  after months of popular protests.

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Arab Spring

• All these countries, all these people wanted a
  change in their governments
• In the summer of 2011 the Arab Spring grew and
  protestors used facebook, twitter, social media
  to spread the word of change
• Millions took to the streets
• Violence occurred, but did it work???

• http//abcnews.go.com/2020/video/year-revolutions-
  katie-couric-this-year-2011-special-middle-east-wa
  ll-street-protest-2020-15167202 (stop at 554)

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The People Force ChangesSocial Media is the
Answer

• http//worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/15/77
  58131-how-rap-music-fueled-the-arab-spring-uprisin
  gs (rap and Arab Spring 807)

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Arab Spring

• http//video.nytimes.com/video/2011/01/25/world/mi
  ddleeast/1248069586905/day-of-anger-in-egypt.html
  (Anger in Egypt 202)
• http//worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/15/77
  58131-how-rap-music-fueled-the-arab-spring-uprisin
  gs (rap and Arab Spring 807)
• http//video.nytimes.com/video/2011/01/27/world/mi
  ddleeast/1248069592784/yemenis-demand-change-of-go
  vernment.html (protests in Yemen 130)
• http//www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id7368428nta
  gmncollst6 (241 current rages)
• http//www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-amber-lyon-talks-t
  o-mediaite-about-being-detained-in-bahrain-and-the
  -digital-roots-of-the-arab-spring/ (630
  facebook)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v6SgkyQp7MuQ
• News MUSIC 317
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v43wezG6MeGM (Arabs
  Unite)