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a decade ago, people in various countries rose up against the authoritarian regimes. it was the start of the arab spring. for years, despotic leaders had ruled their nations like their own personal property. seeing their power threatened, they struck back with brutality. but despite the odds, the popular uprisings continued to spread, all was the same thing, dignity, justice, and you know, read on the table. several ailing regimes collapsed. the people were kicking out the dictators. i dream up and out of their religious extremists joined the power struggle. their goal was not democracy, but and islamic state,

the civil war broke out as countries also became prey to foreign influence. i've never been, all we have is right now even every day yesterday or today the arab ring has mainly lose this lose civil society. 10 years on what is the legacy of the arab spring given the countless pay tallies and victims of war and displacement. the once the arab spring, a failure the, the

syllabus deed, a town in central tunisia became world famous as the cradle of the protests that sparked the arab spring. the 23 year long regime of president xen, aberdeen ban ali had ground down the impoverished rural population. subway the gulf there. every day we were aware of how disastrous economic situation was in the last days have been all these rules doubled so much poverty. everything was getting more expensive and we were on the constant pressure that can be more farmers were fighting for survival. their average earnings of 5 years a day were barely enough to feed their families some just about managed to get by selling goods at the market. but many couldn't afford the stall fees, then the police with confiscate their goods. the vendors faced arbitrary harassment at the hands of officials. ah, inexperienced mohammed was easy,

suffered repeatedly. the young st vendor dreamed of a different life, his relative se. but then came the day and 2010, that changed everything. there is nothing to do some against me. you will get december. the 17th was the day that brought things to a head. how it was insulted by the police not for the 1st time. and i was not the 1st time that the officers confiscated his goods at pleasure. hello, monica really did that to demand justice. she went to the town hall nic and he wanted to explain to the officials what he had to provide for his family. how was the bureaucrats wouldn't listen to him if he didn't get the entry? any of them allow you what sort of allow you hold on one side of my n all of a sudden himself on fire. he must have most of the other monotonous

mohamad cc doused himself with gasoline in front of the government building. in an act of desperation, the doctors were unable to save him. he died after spending 18 days in a coma might move ahead of them. see what the heck of them may have a british definite, a web sherry that mohammed was easy, like many of his generation had been unable to find a steady job. he was just 26 years old. his death sent shock waves through tunisia for many. it was the signal for a revolution also for his cousin kaya. and this is why you need to set up

the company. so you that the mom, it's the trigger for all of us. we were no longer afraid. we will all angry, can humble bodies. so the, there were many reasons to start a revolution and then this happened. she's up the day after mohammed boys easy set himself a light people and cd seed took to the streets. the victim had been one of their own. mm. in the capital tunis, the ruling class realized too late, how explosive the situation had become in rural regions. the rich and powerful residing on the mediterranean coast, where an oligarchy that had emerged under tunisia as authoritarian president. ben ali had ruled the country with an iron fist since 1987. he

promised tunisians prosperity, but his family and his friends ruthlessly exploited the country. mm. the news of mohammed was easy. death then reached the capital. the young man's active self immolation prompted people as soon as to hit the streets. in previous years, there had already been repeated protests about poverty and rampant corruption. the new hopes that people would really trust us this before and really revolt. so we could put pressure on the system and it looks like that i make when ali go and open your mind. neither can we really want to overthrow the system and see its demise. i'm wondering if i'm out of here at the time my alex katy was the spokesman for a student organization. the young people took to the streets, side by side with workers and teachers. the demonstrators assembled in front of the

headquarters of the countries main trade union where they were relatively safe from the police. the regime was responding to the protests with increasingly bloody crackdowns. but the unrest escalated video showing the victims of police violence circulated throughout tunisia. social media served as an accelerant for the arab spring. the lager lena ban ma haney was a prominent face of the protests. all the moments i experienced organic and proceeding kathrine or indelibly burned into my memory instead of the one thing i will never forget was the parents of a boy who had just been shot. and the sister and mother and father were

sitting around his body in their living room and on the, on the family wanted the blogger to document the crimes of the been all the regime lena ban. mccaney had previously published critical reports on the government on her website a tunisian girl. she then included the video of the dead boy. for many tunisians, her posts were more trustworthy than the official news. she turned social media into a non violent weapon in the fight against oppression. johnson and his actual jail with the internet. everything changed the fest done with you could suddenly reach a lot of people before that it was not possible to act and express yourself so quickly to broadcast and live to film and share videos such be

the protests of earlier years had been crushed by the regime but this time that wouldn't succeed, explains isabel baron has a specialist on margaret the region of north africa. the anger and the mobilize ation were very much facilitated by social media. it's got that will also attempt to prevent it by shutting down the internet. they ultimately failed yet the, the activists documented the police violence on facebook the regime could no longer win the war of images, of protest to the 1st act more intensified these protest. then in a single day, i think around 50 people were killed by the security forces and that's absolutely broke to be for that unit. yes,

the regime was the police state but not one that regularly kills people. so dust and so then really everybody, everybody went out onto the strange across all social classes, age groups, all across the country. and then the unbelievable news. ben ali had fled tunisia for saudi arabia and the vehicle. on january 14th, we were all gathered in front of the interior ministry shouting, get out, get out. it was an unforgettable moment in hundreds of thousands of people use the sun. the demonstrators had 12 nations from all walks of life. united across the country, proved that they were stronger than been ali. we will get him within the space of a month, the uprising of cd was eat,

had taken over the whole country and swept away the decades old dictatorship. tunisia was the starting point of uprisings that gripped large parts of the arab world over the next few months from algeria and egypt to jordan by rain, syria, and yemen. in 17 countries, people took to the streets to demand bread, freedom and social justice. millions of people were taking their political destiny into their own hands, pushing back against corrupt regimes and authoritarian leaders in egypt. the news of the fall of tunisian dictator ben ali rang alarm bells for president tuscany. mubarek,

the 82 year old had likewise been in power for decades. always confirmed in office by carefully orchestrated party congress's. mubarak ruled the country with the help of the military. and the intelligence services with the social and economic situation in egypt was even more explosive than into neesha . about a quarter of the population lived below the national poverty line. many families relied on day labor. 2000000 children between 5 and 15 had to work instead of going to school unemployment among young adults in egypt was an excess of 50 percent, a ticking demographic time boss. some one else yet was still a student when the unrest in tunisia began. i recall very well the day the revolution started into news for us, not if we went to the chinese, the,

an embassy in cairo and shouted slogans in support of the demonstrate his engineer . now the revolution is coming and it will destroy the regime and the blue cross, metalli y got snow the. there were also slogans against hosni. mubarak, on we supported the chain is in revolution. and what happened in june, the gave us hope at the time of the revolution into nisha, swept into egypt and dro people onto the streets. 11 days after ben ali's departure, thousands gathered on cairo's terrier square on january 25th, the protest against the regime. the anger over hosni mubarak as well as injustice and social inequality in the country were now finding an outlet. terrier square became the center of the popular opposition movement.

the heater can get re a square with gold paradise on the shoulder. we felt like we all knew each other and all literally, all strauser of gyptian society were represented there. mostly muslims and christians, women and men, workers and farmers, doctors and engineers, journalists all together on to korea. but you can see. but then the, the regime reacted as usual dispatching thugs, well, the unrest, mubarek had cracked down to nip protests in the bud before. but this time the demonstrators were fighting back the tunisian had shown them the way the protests escalated. 7 the government buildings went up in flames. the regime was tottering. the situation seemed to be

spinning into chaos. then the army entered the arena. the military has always been the power broker in egypt. the. the generals realized early on that new bark could not be saved. and took control initially the soldiers were ordered not to take action against the protesters. instead they fraternize with them. but the army leadership had very different plans for the time after the fall of the regime. middle east expert daniel gala sees the role of the military as key to the developments that followed device. and they wanted to portray themselves as the savior of the people. the small bar cut the

step down most of the military power. then ultimately, the military was able to preserve its own status while giving the impression to the outside world. we are on the side of the population and as the focal, the mubarek space was sealed. as in tunisia, the people brought down a regime that had seemed untouchable initially, the military took charge of an interim government. but the demonstrators were demanding free elections. they dreamed of a democratic future. dreams that were not to materialize. an entirely new force entered the political vacuum, the muslim brotherhood which mubarak had previously kept in check. the islamist organization now saw its chance to attain political power in egypt. was

a person who tried to have a political talk to before. and they have been one of the by that is you don't do that. 2 things are prohibited to have a political party to have media out. it just was curious if you try to approach this read zoom so you will be all in june. so what happened actually after mubarak fall, the muslim brotherhood openly pursued its political goal of a state ruled by islamic or shari'a law. it launched the freedom and justice party hom says nobody was one of its spokesmen. ah, the brotherhood had built up a considerable base and poor urban neighborhoods. and among the rural population where its supporters were conservative, devout and barely educated. during the years of persecution,

under mubarek, the muslim brotherhood put its political ambitions, seemingly on hold focusing on charitable work and building up networks in the muslim brotherhood was founded in the 1920s as part of the opposition to british colonial rule in egypt. its members now dreamed of a state governed by islamic principles. most of the muslim brotherhood, there is no real alternatives and my taking power, at least if you look at their core ideology, what done only then as i found the house on our banner roads, they be in a position to implement god's will. and his last victory only then with political power in their hands, and would they be able to transform the state and run political life? and so for the most in brotherhood, the mother is really no tentative political power. the young people who had forced

mubarek to step down still dreamed of freedom and democracy, but they could not prevail against the well organized islamists. the lebanese dutch journalist came, got us, was in egypt in 2011. after the fall of the bark, i was a b, b c correspondent, covering the state department. and i traveled with hillary clinton for secretary of state to cairo. and we met with some of the activists of april 6 movement went to helped bring down the hospital bar. hillary clinton asked them how are you preparing for the elections? and they said, we don't do elections, we don't do politics, we just do revolution. it's

a very idealistic outlook and one that you can understand if you realize how dirty politics have been in the region for so long, ah, even after the interim military government scheduled elections, the bloody clashes continued, the protesters wanted a genuine revolution. they were becoming more radical, but the ongoing chaos on cairo's streets, scared many people and pushed them into the arms of the islamists. we didn't use power, we use the boat. we used the when the people we managed to get the people out of the homes to vote for the president, and he got more than 15, medium benson vote after his election victory in 2012. the muslim brotherhood mohammed morsey bound to be the president for all

addictions, more jobs, more prosperity, more democracy, central demands of the arab spring seems set to come true. but if anything, the opposite was happening. as the islamists gained influence? the morsey government, pardon, prisoners, including islamist militants. there was a shifting focus towards sherry, a law with women's rights curtailed and public life to become more islam eyes. the militant islamists were calling for holy war. egypt appeared headed toward a theocratic state. oh. 7 7 7 yeah, now some of the gulf states were watching the rise of the muslim brotherhood with concern in the united arab emirates, or u a. e is

a federation of 7 chic them on the east of the arabian peninsula, me the rulers in abu dhabi and to buy, or among the richest men in the world. they too had cause to fear for their future . feel how many ruling families in the world place their claim to power either on his lamb or and then noble ancestry. on the muslim, the muslim brotherhood were in his midst organisation with a certain amount of popular support. and they were the only ones who had really been able to credibly challenge this claim to power. and also had the means to change the political situation. the police said it's, and on for the ruling house in abu dhabi, the fight against the muslim brotherhood became a priority not to promote democracy. but because the authoritarian rulers feared

being swept away by the brotherhood who were using islam as a political weapon. the absolute rulers in the gulf used as long as a means to legitimize their regimes in the amorous spell, particularly threatened because rival cutter had become the main backer of the muslim brotherhood, supported by turkey in egypt and denisia. the brotherhood was an important political factor at the beginning of the arab spring. it also had a strong presence in libya, sudan, jordan, morocco, and syria. its most determined opponent, alongside the united arab emirates, was saudi arabia had the so it is in the saudi arabia and the emron wanted to prevent the realization of cutouts interest life and death. conflict over control in the region today is

perhaps more important than the arab israeli conflict. we're going to continue highly hobb. this is another legacy of the arab spring. the stance toward the muslim brotherhood still often marks the demarcation line between friend and foe. into neesha, political developments were initially similar to those in egypt. here to the countries 1st democratic elections took place after the revolution. here to the muslim brotherhood succeeded and becoming part of the government. here too, there was a threat of radicalization. the political forces were deadlocked. the economy stagnated unemployment rows. more and more young people were trying to emigrate to europe. the new political class seemed as incapable of leading tunisia to a better future as the former regime. some 2 nations even began to wish for the

return of ben ali, ah rochelle, she has been speaker of the termination parliament since 2019 and is the leader of the another party which has close ties to the muslim brotherhood. the party holds moderate positions, but critics initially accused canoes of wanting to use democracy for his own agenda . similar to the brotherhood in egypt ah canoe. she returned home in 2011. he had been imprisoned in tunisia in the 19 eighties and spent 2 decades in exile in britain the name of you to in this. while in egypt there was a clash between the muslim brotherhood and the officials of the past system. and this ended in a qu, into nicea, we tried to reach a compromise of the corners to both sides. we and the representatives of the old

regime and embrace democracy and elected as said c as president of the war. now it's been near democrat, the moment that i'm for i subsea canoe. she likes to portray himself and his party as regular conservatives committed to their religious values but also to democracy . 2 but soon after the revolution from 2011 to 2013. and now that also became a rallying point for islam as many of the party leaders had spent years in the regime. prisons along with the muslim brotherhood members after the revolution and not the leaders looked on as islamists campaign for a sharika law state. the. 7

calls like this posed a threat and not only to tunisia as fledgling democracy from no other arab country would so many young people head off to the so called holy war in libya, syria or iraq to fight for a caliphate. and many tunisians would lose their lives, their illustrator salim, a rookie led the civil war in his native algeria. but even in exile in tunisia, there was no getting away from the islamists. he responded through art creating a comic character that made him known throughout the arab world. movies on i came to nicea 12 years ago. so i know

gene is here before and after the revolution and right after the revolution with the rise of the islam. i created the figure of your hair board, have it because because i'm from algeria i had experienced how the rise of these limits, transformed all of society. i saw the mechanisms by which they penetrate the society local too much. so this was a natural reaction to so i created the figure of the little salad is to want unions of the danger of his, the migration of it with the means of my disposal. she didn't. the son is asher one but into nisha. in particular, the message of the little sala fest did not get through at 1st. some tunisians were still toxic, aided by the success of the revolution. others were busy with the everyday struggle for survival. they can't cause you to be last week.

i had in 2011 have come to show me because in tunisia after the revolution, people said, oh, it's not the same here, isn't algeria? we are different. there will be assassinations or violence here recently. but then there were, there were assassinations of politicians. there was terrorism, there were bombs chose box, which is what i did from this dog here in my blog. to portray all these his limits as violent people who broke conditional jewelry in 2013 to left. when politicians were killed in attacks by islamists, many tunisians held russia canoes shape politically responsible and demanded that his and not a party leave the government. when the

didn't know we strongly condemned old this violence he's attacked. and when we were in the coalition government, in 20122013, we passed a law to ban the seller 1st national, living as that in that kind of when you bought or it was the minister of the interior, one of us who made sure that the seller 1st party was banned the vietnam or lily us that made it illegal. and that was the only way to prohibit and police these movements said if you mean it was, it was, hadn't been taught them. it will nice to know. she continued to emphasize his parties commitment to democracy, despite its proximity to the muslim brotherhood. but as in 2011, it was women who were defending the gains of the revolution against the brotherhood

. in the face of political violence, one special feature of to nature was revealed a strong civil society that would not accept terror. we dead bush. maui is the president of the country's employers association. don't want to want to show. we feared for our revolution when we were afraid of a step backward and that our democracy or freedom would evaporate the dictatorship of return. when an addicted to an alliance was formed, boucher always organization joined the tunisian national dialogue quartet together with trade unionists, human rights activists and lawyers. they helped pave the way to a new constitution. and nato was among the parties that promised to abide by it. ah, in 2015, the tenicia quartet received the nobel peace prize for its mediation between

secularists and islamists. the in no other country have political opponents been so willing to reach out to each other. this is what saved tunisian democracy. ski particularly issue notions easy. what is a special about us and to nisha is that 1st we have a population that is educated. and 2nd, we have a civil society that is very involved, a politically alert and civil society. that sense what would that change? and we have kenesha women who are emancipated, open minded, committed women, those 3 assets, and able to manage things very easily on appeal issues. armando, many p

ah, among those courageous women, was blogger lina been ma haney, and the turmoil following the revolution. she was targeted by extremists and had to fear for her life. ah, for years she was under police protection, but she refused to be intimidated. was referred to him on this as cortex. no, i didn't ask for protection, i was forced to have it. and to this day, they still haven't lifted the protection fox. sometimes i get calls because there are new threats against me. they tell me to be vigilant. still the case today said jeff to sure was never considered leaving the country the just i think my flight is here. they want

me to leave, but i don't want to. i will say here, i love my country. i don't want so real fast. yes. in all despite setbacks, tunisia managed to consolidate what had been gained from the revolution. thanks in part to abroad alliance within society. in egypt, the situation was bleaker. in in 2013 a year after mohammed more sees election victory, people took to the streets against the newly elected president. and his muslim brotherhood. the democratic freedoms won at great cost from the fight against mubarak, were once again in danger. with jerry

a law soon to be introduced, women in particular feared for their rights tension on the streets, continued to rise. supporters and opponents of the muslim brotherhood clashed on a daily basis in the soft one as yet was among the demonstrators one small talk. one of them that in the greatest you pity of the muslim brotherhood was that they tried to abolish everything that didn't suit them. the best example was mostly attempts to change the constitution. so that the president's decisions i, his would not be subject to challenge. the fact that was a disaster that was against the will of the people that was against the pro democracy movement. it to get to do more in the summer of 2013 hundreds of thousands again descended on terrier square. this

time to force more sees resignation. he had been in office for just one year. army helicopters flew over the square signaling support for more c opponents. as with mubarek st overthrow, the military was showing who really holds power in egypt. the armies men in the government was defense minister general abdel fattano cc. once the military was sure it had large segments of the people on its side of the sea, states to coo and had morsey and other members of the government imprisoned. the muslim brotherhood, a brief rule was over. but was it their final defeat? it was in listening to the hood, experienced decades of oppression that torture repression and still managed to organize and sustain itself on the ground. and that made them ideologically,

extremely well steeled in that country on the northeast, impressing a short term political develop that makes them dangerous. and actually not only for authoritarian regime, also, especially for thought, terry and regimes. muslim brotherhood supporters revolted against the military coup . the new regime showed no mercy in its response. thousands were shot or jailed. many were sentenced to death. in summary trials, the muslim brotherhood paid a heavy toll. with that political rival eliminated, the generals made i'll cc head of government. it was the end of the arab spring in egypt. an exit is began thousands who were politically active left the country. muslim brotherhood members as well as opposition figures. many fled to stumble. it had become

a hub for the dispersed dissidence of the arab spring. turkey especially welcomed islamists like hums. i sober in egypt. he had been the spokesman for the muslim brotherhood political arm and topped the cc regimes most wanted lists. once in exile, he bolster the parties, resistance credentials. start adobe, and we go to the air until free 3 hour when 3 countries just something normal. it happened during the era of socialism that happened during the fight of dictatorship. and this will happen, and i'm sure that we will succeed in the hopes on zillow, but is came to present himself as a victim saying the egyptian government confiscated his property and put his

brother in jail from a television studio. in istanbul, he promotes the muslim brotherhood cause every week. however, the turkish government recently asked him and other muslim brotherhood members to reduce their media activities. turkey wants to improve its relations with egypt and the gulf states. xo bout has fared comparatively well in exile. a situation others can only dream of like some one else. i ed in 2017, he fled to berlin. the cc regime makes no distinction between political opponents. at persecutes the muslim brotherhood just as it does democratic opposition figures . with in 2015 i was walking down the street. i had a computer with me with a sticker saying no trials of civilians and military cause i commit another commit

alaska more than a dollar a year. that's when i was stopped and arrested faith. i was accused of belonging to a terrorist organization. what to her about dish hugs. i wasn't detained for very long, but i was put in a sale meant for 7 prisoners and there were 50 of us where they can come for the metal. and so we all had to sleep on one side, so we could at least all lie on the flume. danny massey now mulligan, been some one else. i had used to work as a journalist, but today he has to support himself with odd jobs. he dreams of returning to egypt and of a new egyptian revolution. no more. c c who are called shot c . c is my personal enemy. because of my exile in germany monthly because of my last years. because of my mother who died in egypt and to whom i could not say good bye

and pay my last respects in the only limited one way of off when i'm going to shut off for the sake of every exile. for the sake of my friends who are in prison and have lost their best years, their blameless lee, and died because of poor medical care will be moved to school. our relationship with l. c. c is about blood when you see them in egypt, the revolution of the arab spring has failed to day. the country is in a state of deathly. com. anyone suspected by the security services is unsafe? the situation is worse than in mo barracks time. only scattered graffiti still bear witness to the years when people dreamed of a different egypt. terrier square where the uprising began here is a lifeless, concrete desert with a few token flower beds. little is left to remind people of the spirit of 2011 and the arabs spring. the

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