Arab Spring

Arab Summer: How the Arab Spring was meant to change everything—but didn’t

By Ljudmila Petrovic “When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”-Victor Hugo In countries across the Middle East, oppressive governments were a fact for decades. The year 2010, however, saw the beginning of what many people around the world saw as a rightful revolution- it became known as the Arab Spring. Optimists believed it was capable of changing the face of democracy and of the Middle East. More than a year has passed since the world was swept up in images of revolution: have things really changed all that much for the big players? TUNISIA Tunisia was the first…

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