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Essay / The Arab Spring - 797
The Arab SpringAlmost 3 years ago, an unemployed man, desperate and yet angry, responsible for making money for his brothers and sisters, set himself on fire. fire in front of the Tunisian municipality building. His flamboyant suicide attempt was the most literal spark in the Arab world. This not only angered the Tunisian people, but also Arab countries from east to west, which subsequently caused the Arab Spring. This incident gave rise to a series of demonstrations which began in Tunisia, then in Egypt and which, unfortunately, have still not ended in Syria. Arab prices were both negative and positive in different aspects. It all started on December 17, 2010 when a 26-year-old man named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in front of the Tunisian municipality of Sidi Bouzid, a small, poor town. He was a street vendor who sold vegetables and fruits, although he had completed a university degree. Yet he still struggled to find a well-paying job to earn a living for himself and his family. During one of his regular working days, a police officer stopped him from selling his goods, fined him and banned him from using his own vegetable cart. But that was not the case, she also allegedly slapped him, spat on him and insulted his deceased father. Bouazizi felt extremely humiliated, crushed and defenseless. Furthermore, he went to the municipality located in Sidi Bouzid to file a complaint hoping that someone would listen to him but unfortunately they closed it. In addition to this series of disappointments, he felt extremely hopeless and helpless, and found no other way to denounce the unfair and abusive treatment he had suffered from both the policewoman and the municipal than to set fire to his own body. 18 days after his suicide attempt, Bouazizi...... middle of newspaper ...... turned against himself by allowing different political parties to also demand to speak out and deliver contradictory points of view of each other as in Egypt and Tunisia. Although the expulsion of dictatorial leaders was fascinating, it was for this reason that the government systems collapsed and none of them were able to satisfy at least the majority of the population, as in Tunisia and Egypt. In conclusion, the Arab Spring could have established certain revolutionary rules. and allowed more freedom of expression, which could be superb. Undoubtedly, this left a great imprint in history and throughout the world, but the consequences generated enormous losses in all kinds of aspects that greatly damaged the current conditions of each country. But to them, it didn't really matter as long as the reward was exactly what they were looking for or fighting for..