Arab Awakening and the Revolution in Egypt
“A riot is the language of the unheard.”
- Martin Luther King Jr
‘Arab Awakening’ or ‘Arab Spring’, which occurred on 18 December 2010, may be regarded as the most recent and burning issue of the contemporary political events since the predominance of news, reports and research over this topic in the year 2011. This huge revolutionary wave in Arab World had given a specific attention when all its happenings were published fully and regularly by the mass media along with the undivided attention from millions of people all round the world. Therefore, ‘Arab Spring’ was not merely a collection of rebellions, uprisings and armed conflicts. It was the regional struggle for democracy and freedom to Middle East which significantly link up with values of Liberalism - one of the most decisive theories in International Relations. This essay will approach and explain ‘The Egyptian Revolution of 2011’ - the emblematic case of ‘Arab Awakening’ in the view of liberals. This study not only helps to analyze the above-mentioned topic but also demonstrate the important role of Liberalism in clarifying the international relations.
‘Arab Awakening’ can be defined as the massive wave of revolutions, rebellions, as well as demonstrations which sweeps across Arabian countries and some parts of North Africa. It first broke out in Tunisia then spread through the neighboring countries independently. Most of its insurgency arose in the year of 2011 and this makes the political situations of the Near East in the same year became extremely troublous. The foremost riot rose in the Republic of Tunisia because of the sensational act of a young man named Mohamed Bouazizi. This twenty-six-year-old man was an irritated street vendor who doused his body with gasoline and burned himself near a local government building on 17 December 2010 due to the confiscation of his unlicensed vegetable cart made by the police. The spontaneous act and the death of this humiliated man in the following day had
- Martin Luther King Jr
‘Arab Awakening’ or ‘Arab Spring’, which occurred on 18 December 2010, may be regarded as the most recent and burning issue of the contemporary political events since the predominance of news, reports and research over this topic in the year 2011. This huge revolutionary wave in Arab World had given a specific attention when all its happenings were published fully and regularly by the mass media along with the undivided attention from millions of people all round the world. Therefore, ‘Arab Spring’ was not merely a collection of rebellions, uprisings and armed conflicts. It was the regional struggle for democracy and freedom to Middle East which significantly link up with values of Liberalism - one of the most decisive theories in International Relations. This essay will approach and explain ‘The Egyptian Revolution of 2011’ - the emblematic case of ‘Arab Awakening’ in the view of liberals. This study not only helps to analyze the above-mentioned topic but also demonstrate the important role of Liberalism in clarifying the international relations.
‘Arab Awakening’ can be defined as the massive wave of revolutions, rebellions, as well as demonstrations which sweeps across Arabian countries and some parts of North Africa. It first broke out in Tunisia then spread through the neighboring countries independently. Most of its insurgency arose in the year of 2011 and this makes the political situations of the Near East in the same year became extremely troublous. The foremost riot rose in the Republic of Tunisia because of the sensational act of a young man named Mohamed Bouazizi. This twenty-six-year-old man was an irritated street vendor who doused his body with gasoline and burned himself near a local government building on 17 December 2010 due to the confiscation of his unlicensed vegetable cart made by the police. The spontaneous act and the death of this humiliated man in the following day had