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Have you ever looked at the Arab uprisings and thought, "How could we have predicted that?" or "How could we have better prepared for that?"
Mass movements in Pakistan have been represented after the Arab uprisings mainly by organizations claiming for some form of theocracy, rather than for a democratic uprising.
The Arab uprisings have demonstrated that this is already beginning.
But what happened in the Arab uprisings and what happened in Egypt was particularly cathartic for me.
But the Arab Spring has changed all that, in uprisings which have blossomed across the region since 2011.
This is one of the major drivers of the recent uprisings, and it is one of the reasons for the rising age of marriage in much of the Arab region.
It was founded to crash down protests and uprisings.
And more recently, movement after movement has shaken country after country: the Arab uprisings from Bahrain to Tunisia to Egypt and more; indignados in Spain, Italy, Greece; the Gezi Park protests; Taiwan; Euromaidan in Ukraine; Hong Kong.
After the Egyptian uprisings in 2011, a group of female protesters were forced to undergo virginity checks by their military.
Story is secondary to witnessing the behind-the-scenes crematorium politics, uprisings, and certainly the ghastly inhuman Nazi actions.
And historically, there WERE no major uprisings in India after the Napoleonic war, so any historical accuracy is out the window.
Yes, of course, there is small reference to the upheavals and uprisings in India and going to San Francisco could have been for reasons of escape.
I didn't know much at all about Che except that he was involved with communist uprisings and revolutions, was buddy-buddy with Castro, and died in execution-style as a guerrilla (that, and his image appears on t-shirts everywhere).
In the absence of viable strategies and clear direction, most Internet-aided uprisings have dissipated quickly.
For his part, Obama supported the Arab Spring uprisings, but offered no pro-democratic strategy – an approach that has led Libya to become a failed state, Egypt to become even more dictatorial, and Syria to collapse into nightmarish and protracted conflict.
So far, anti-American rhetoric has been remarkably muted in the uprisings sweeping the Middle East.
Meanwhile, America’s relationship with its traditional Arab allies – the region’s conservative Sunni regimes – is faltering, owing largely to US President Barack Obama’s failure to respond effectively in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings.
Indeed, one of the most interesting features of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt – and possibly the most consequential as well – is the very minor role played by Islamists.
As a result, the United States and Europe often spend tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars to send troops or bombers to quell uprisings or target “failed states,” but do not send one-tenth or even one-hundredth of that amount to address the underlying crises of water scarcity and under-development.
As John Limbert, the erudite Iran scholar and retired US diplomat (taken hostage in Iran for 444 days) once reflected on the 1979 Iranian revolution, “Our liberal-minded Iranian friends proved to be helpless in political turmoil....[T]hey could write biting editorials,” but lacked the stomach to “throw acid, beat up opponents, organize street gangs...and engage in the brutality that wins” in political uprisings.
The Arab Spring uprisings brought to the fore the inadequacy of the region’s outdated social contracts in the face of current political and economic challenges.
Five years after the uprisings erupted, Arab citizens have little – in some cases, even less – voice in running their countries’ affairs.
Consider the uprisings in Europe in 1848, in which citizens protested against authoritarian, feudal systems and the lack of economic opportunity.
By the end of that year, status quo forces managed to retake the reins of power, and the uprisings appeared to have been all but crushed.
But to think that is to forget past progressive uprisings, such as in Beirut in 2005, Algiers and Tehran in 2009, and the Arab Spring that began in Tunisia and spread throughout the region in 2011.
The Arab Spring uprisings, which led to violence and instability in most affected countries, were fueled largely by desperate young people demanding rights and opportunities.
After the Promised LandLONDON – At the height of the Arab uprisings last spring, many Europeans were gripped by nightmare visions of a tsunami of migrants crashing against the continent’s shores.
Without a change of course, the outcome could easily be further conflict and a new wave of uprisings – this time not peaceful.
Unforeseen uprisings are possible wherever repression keeps people from expressing their political preferences openly.
If the 2011 uprisings had not occurred, we would now be witnessing another year of autocracy, with more talk of dynastic successions.
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