Arab Spring

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Arab Spring in Two Minutes

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Updated: 26 Aug 2014
author: Global Guide

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Arab Spring: The Documentary

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Updated: 01 Sep 2014
author: RT

For most people in the world, spring is a favorite season. Nature begins to awaken after a deep winter sleep. The sun is shining and flowers are blooming. Bu...

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How FaceBook Changed The World The Arab Spring [1/4]

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Updated: 03 Sep 2014
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The story of how the Arab world erupted in revolution, as a new generation used the internet and social media to try to overthrow their hated leaders.In the ...

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The Arab Spring - What is it?

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Updated: 27 Jul 2014
author: Al Ectric

CNN report on the Arab Spring.

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Was The Arab Spring Bad For Egypt?

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Updated: 28 Jan 2015

Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml Violent protests in Egypt have been ongoing since 2011 when President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown and put on trial. Has the country improved since ousting Mubarak? What's the current state of Egypt? Learn More: Egypt’s Unprecedented Instability by the Numbers http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/03/24/egypt-s-unprecedented-instability-by-numbers/h5j3 “Egyptians have suffered through the most intense human rights abuses and terrorism in their recent history in the eight months since the military ousted then president Mohamed Morsi.” Egypt: Background and U.S. Relations https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33003.pdf “Between 1948 and 2014, the United States provided Egypt with $74.65 billion in bilateral foreign aid..., including $1.3 billion a year in military aid from 1987 to the present.” BBC Profile: Hosni Mubarak http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-12301713 “Hosni Mubarak ruled Egypt for almost 30 years until he was swept from power in a wave of mass protests in February 2011.” U.S. Passports and International Travel: Egypt http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/country/egypt.html Watch More: Why Did Egypt and the UAE Just Bomb Libya? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAEix8-Zk2U Subscribe to TestTube Daily! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml _________________________ TestTube's new daily show is committed to answering the smart, inquisitive questions we have about life, society, politics and anything else happening in the news. It's a place where curiosity rules and together we'll get a clearer understanding of this crazy world we live in. Watch more TestTube: http://testtube.com/testtubedailyshow/ Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=testtubenetwork TestTube on Twitter https://twitter.com/TestTube Trace Dominguez on Twitter https://twitter.com/TraceDominguez TestTube on Facebook https://facebook.com/testtubenetwork TestTube on Google+ http://gplus.to/TestTube Download the New TestTube iOS app! http://testu.be/1ndmmMq

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Arab spring Timeline

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Updated: 01 Sep 2014
author: Lama Alosaimi

My source of the dates of the revolutions: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline.

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The truth about the Arab spring (full documentary) Morocco

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Updated: 23 Aug 2014
author: Kamal Farhi

This documentary explains the political situation in Morocco from the perspective of ordinary citizens.

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Noam Chomsky | Emerging World Order and the Arab Spring

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Updated: 24 Oct 2012

Noam Chomsky, philosopher, political analyst and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered a lecture at AUC titled "Emerging World Order and the Arab Spring." The lecture was held on Tuesday, October 23 at Ewart Memorial Hall, AUC Tahrir Square. Chomsky is widely regarded as the founder of modern linguistics and is the author of more than 100 books on topics ranging from linguistics to political science and journalism. In 2005, he was voted as the leading public intellectual by the British Prospect magazine, and the Chicago Tribune described him as the most quoted author alive today.

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How young Tunisians went from Arab Spring to Islamic State

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Updated: 01 Sep 2015

In the wake of the Arab Spring, Tunisians hoped that jobs and prosperity would follow the rise of democracy in their country. But persistent unemployment and poverty have disenchanted many young people, sending waves of former protesters to fight for the Islamic State. Special correspondent Yasmeen Qureshi reports from Tunis.

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'Pentagon created Arab Spring over decade ago'

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Updated: 07 Jun 2014
author: RT

The Arab Spring uprisings were arguably the most significant events of the last 12 months. Protests are still raging across the region, even after regimes we...

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Dalia Mogahed: The attitudes that sparked Arab Spring

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Updated: 25 Aug 2014
author: TED

http://www.ted.com Pollster Dalia Mogahed shares surprising data on Egyptian people's attitudes and hopes before the Arab Spring -- with a special focus on t...

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Noam Chomsky: Arab Spring, American Winter

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Duration: 106:26
Updated: 30 Aug 2014
author: UNE Center for Global Humanities

UNE's Center for Global Humanities and its founding director, Anouar Majid, host Noam Chomsky to reflect on the irony of people in the Middle East and North ...

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World Revolution 2011 - The Arabian Spring!

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Updated: 01 Aug 2014
author: ArabianSpring

The revolution in Tunisia will forever be remembered as the spark that started a worldwide revolution. Their courage broke the barrier of fear which has reso...

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Syria Rises: The Media, The Propaganda & The Arab Spring (Full movie by WordswithMeaning!org)

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Updated: 18 Aug 2014
author: wordswithmeaning

Syria Rises is a film by WordswithMeaning.org that covers the grounds of The Arab Spring and the revolution that lead to the thousands of deaths in Syria. Th...

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Arab Spring: Protests in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and More

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Updated: 30 May 2014
author: WatchMojo.com

When a Tunisian street vendor set himself on fire to protest government corruption, he started a widespread series of uprisings. http://www.WatchMojo.com tra...

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Sec. James Baker on the Arab Spring

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Updated: 08 May 2015

Former Secretary of State James Baker speaks on the unclear legacy of the Arab Spring uprisings, the threat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the 2016 presidential elections and the rise of China and India in Asia. The 2015 Hassib J. Sabbagh Lecture on Diplomacy.

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Technology's Role In the Arab Spring Protests

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Updated: 20 Aug 2014
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/nextwork_conference_2011 Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas, elaborates on the role Twitter and other social medi...

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Beirut turmoil: 'Lebanon on brink of new Arab spring'

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Updated: 26 Aug 2015

It is the fourth night of unrest in Lebanon's capital Beirut. Started as demonstrations over a breakdown in the city's rubbish removal system, has turned into violent protests, with calls growing for the government to resign. RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/rt Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT Listen to us on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rttv RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.

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Understanding Arab Spring struggles and success

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Updated: 20 Feb 2014

What differentiates Tunisia in its progress establishing a young democracy, while other countries inspired by the Arab Spring have floundered? What are the lasting consequences for nations that have plunged into long-term conflict? Jeffrey Brown asks for an assessment from Hisham Melhem of Al-Arabiya, Mary-Jane Deeb of the Library of Congress and Tarek Masoud of Harvard University.

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On the Arab Spring with the Director of 'We Are the Giant'

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Updated: 15 Jan 2015

Greg Barker's new documentary We Are the Giant takes an in-depth look at an exceedingly complex global phenomenon—the Arab Spring. By focusing on three unique stories born out of three disparate but interconnected struggles, Barker draws out the common threads that bind the ongoing revolutions together. We recently sat down with Barker to discuss the film. Watch Now: "Redefining Revolution in Syria and the New World Order" - http://bit.ly/14F4r9E Check out more great interviews: http://bit.ly/VICE-Meets Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-Videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Read our Tumblr: http://vicemag.tumblr.com Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vice

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Arab Spring or Middle East Chaos?

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Duration: 65:51
Updated: 18 Aug 2014
author: The Aspen Institute

Will Syria resolve itself? Might Egypt erupt yet again into bloody conflict? Might 2024 see a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, now 66...

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The "Arab Spring": Three years on

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Updated: 30 Aug 2014
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Three years ago today, on 14 January 2011, Tunisia's former president and dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali stepped down after 23 years in power following an ...

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'Arab Spring' to ISIS: The Mideast 'Misconception'

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Updated: 05 Aug 2015

Despite the fact that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, it's been blamed for decades for much of the trouble in the region.

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Nikki Mudarris response to private video leak

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A Nikki Mudarris and Mally Mall Sex Tape Was Just Leaked Without Miss Nikki Baby’s Consent

VH1

30 Sep 2015

Could Nikki Mudarris and Mally Mall be the next Mimi and Nikko? The on-again, off-again couple just had a sex tape leak but Nikki says the video was made public without her consent. Embedded from instagram.com ... This was a total violation of my privacy ... This is beyond embarrassing and hurtful ... ....

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A woman is comforted as friends and family wait for students at the local fairgrounds after a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015.

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Gunman opens fire at Oregon college; 13 people reported dead

The Associated Press

01 Oct 2015

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) -- A gunman opened fire at an Oregon community college Thursday, killing at least a dozen people before dying during a shootout with police, authorities said. The shooting happened at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said 13 people are dead. It was not immediately clear whether that number also included the 20-year-old gunman ... --- ... ....

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Friends and family are reunited with students at the local fairgrounds after a deadly shooting at Umpqua Community College, in Roseburg, Ore., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015.

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Gunman at Oregon college reportedly kills 15 with 20 more wounded - live updates

The Daily Telegraph

01 Oct 2015

15 people reportedly killed and many others wounded in shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon . ....

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United States President Barack Obama addresses a Leaders’ Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, which he chaired on the margins of the General Assembly general debate, 29 September, 2015. He is flanked on the dais by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Haider al-Abadi, Prime Minister of Iraq.

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Why Putin's Syria move is such a dilemma for Obama

CNN

01 Oct 2015

(CNN)Once again Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to have stolen a march on U.S. President Barack Obama and his European and Gulf state allies by presenting them with a fait accompli in the shape of an established air, ground and naval forces presence in Syria at Latakia and Tartous ... Justin Bronk. Putin is clearly reasserting Russian influence in the Middle East and attempting to preserve his barbaric ally Bashar al-Assad ... U.S ... ....

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Schram: Obama’s all talk, no action on Syria

Boston Herald

02 Oct 2015

Maybe it was all the way back when events in Egypt made it clear that the Arab Spring was not destined to create a wave of democracy that would sweep across the still-despotic Middle East. Maybe it was when he saw that following the deposal of Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, the Arab Spring failed to produce a government of, by and for the Libyan people....

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Obama misread Arab Spring’s signs

Stars and Stripes

01 Oct 2015

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Seven Points Not on the Arab Media Agenda – What Is There to Celebrate?

CounterPunch

01 Oct 2015

It has been recently announced that Arab ‘media experts’ plan to ‘celebrate’ Arab Media Day on April 21, 2016 ... In reality, Arab media has little to celebrate ... If April 21 is to be of any value at all, it should be a day of candid discussion about urgent and practical steps required to escape the complete collapse of credibility under which most Arab media has prevailed since the so-called Arab Spring in the last four-and-a-half years....

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Bahrain withdraws ambassador from Iran after bomb-factory find

Canberra Times

01 Oct 2015

The Gulf Arab kingdom has been cracking down on militants behind recent bomb attacks on security forces ... Home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, Bahrain was swept by protests during the 2011 "Arab Spring" uprisings in which Shiites demanded political reforms....

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The Middle East meltdown and its global economic risk

The Guardian

01 Oct 2015

With the Arab Spring an increasingly distant memory, the instability along this arc is deepening. Indeed, of the three initial Arab spring countries, Libya has become a failed state, Egypt has returned to authoritarian rule, and Tunisia is being economically and politically destabilised by terrorist attacks....

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Russia: Superpower or Proxy?

Real Clear Politics

01 Oct 2015

... and Arab Gulf states ... Saudi Arabia makes no bones about being the leading opponent of everything the Arab Spring stood for when it began in 2011 and everything that so many in the West were cheering for. The Saudis helped engineer the 2013 coup in Egypt that restored military rule to the largest Arab country and dealt the Arab Spring a fatal blow....

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US State Dept publishes 6K more pages of Hillary Clinton emails

Zeenews

01 Oct 2015

The US State Department has released on 6,300 additional pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails, covering a period when US forces killed Osama bin Laden and the Arab Spring rocked American diplomacy ... ....

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Clinton private account targeted in Russia-linked email scam

Gulf News

01 Oct 2015

Hacking attempts covered a period when US forces killed Bin Laden and the Arab Spring rocked American diplomacy ... ....

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Bahrain expels Iranian diplomat, alleges link to militants

Palm Beach Post

01 Oct 2015

Bahrain ordered the acting Iranian charge d'affaires to leave within 72 hours Thursday night and recalled its own ambassador over allegations the Islamic Republic sponsored "subversion" and funneled arms to militants in the island kingdom ... Navy's 5th Fleet, previously expelled Iranian diplomats amid Shiite protests there in 2011 during the Arab Spring across the Middle East ... View Comments 0 ....

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Emails: Russia-linked hackers tried to access Clinton server

The Associated Press

01 Oct 2015

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly released emails show Russia-linked hackers tried at least five times to pry into Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email account while she was secretary of state. It is unclear if she clicked on any attachment and exposed her account ... 3, 2011 ... That doesn't necessarily mean Russians were responsible. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE ... forces killed Osama bin Laden and the Arab Spring rocked American diplomacy ... ....

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U.S.-Russia tensions result in falling oil prices

Yahoo Daily News

01 Oct 2015

Oil prices fell nearly 1 percent Thursday after being up over 4 percent on the first trading day of the new quarter ... "But what they disagree on, is how to deal with that.". Kliment told CNBC's "Closing Bell" that the U.S ... Croft cited the Arab Spring as well as concerns about Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities as past geopolitical events to which the market has reacted significantly ... More From CNBC ... ....

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US seeking to undo Iran’s 1979 Revolution: Mark Glenn

Press TV

01 Oct 2015

The following is a rough transcription of the interview. . Press TV ... What do you make of those comments?. Glenn ... Iran is the only country that has successfully achieved its own independence not like one of those fake revolutions that we have seen occurring in the last few years under the banner of Arab Spring. You know in the Christian tradition we have an old saying that has been attributed to Jesus which is that ... . Press TV ... ....

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The Words After War Interview with Siobhan Fallon by Michael Pitre

Huffington Post

01 Oct 2015

Theatrical productions of her fiction include performances in San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, and France ... She and her family now live in Abu Dhabi, UAE, where her husband is still active duty in the U.S ... MP ... It's set in Jordan during the Arab Spring, and I turn to the embassy community in much the same way I turned to the military world in You Know When the Men Are Gone ... marital love, all with the Arab Spring unraveling in the background....