Arab Spring

Arab Spring
Date	17 December 2010 – mid-2012
Location	Arab world
Causes	Authoritarianism Demographic structural factors 2000s energy crisis Political corruption Human rights violations Inflation Sectarianism Unemployment Self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi
Goals	Democracy Free elections Economic freedom Human rights Employment Regime change Religion tolerance
Methods	Civil disobedience Civil resistance Defection Demonstrations Insurgency Internet activism Protest camps Revolution Riots Self-immolation Silent protests Sit-ins Social Media Strike actions Urban warfare Uprising
Status	Tunisia: President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ousted, and government overthrown. Egypt: President Hosni Mubarak ousted, and government overthrown. Libya: Leader Muammar Gaddafi killed following a civil war that saw a foreign military intervention, and government overthrown. Yemen: President Ali Abdullah Saleh ousted, and power handed to a national unity government. Syria: President Bashar al-Assad faces civil uprising against his rule that deteriorates into armed rebellion and eventual full-scale civil war. Bahrain: Civil uprising against the government crushed by authorities and Saudi-led intervention. Kuwait, Lebanon and Oman: Government changes implemented in response to protests. Morocco and Jordan: Constitutional reforms implemented in response to protests. Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Mauritania, and other Arab countries: Protests.
Casualties
Death(s)	thousands (International estimate; see table below)
Main enemies: Dictators and takfiri

Main enemies:

The Arab Spring or Democracy Spring (Arabic: الربيع الديمقراطي‎‎, is (Arabic: الربيع العربي‎‎, ar-rabīˁ al-ˁarabī) was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups and civil wars in the Arab world that began on 17 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution, and spread throughout the countries of the Arab League and its surroundings. Major insurgencies and civil wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen resulted, along with civil uprisings in Bahrain and Egypt, large street demonstrations in Algeria, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman and Sudan and minor protests in Djibouti, Mauritania, the Palestinian territories, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and the Western Sahara. A major slogan of the demonstrators in the Arab world is Ash-sha`b yurid isqat an-nizam ("the people want to bring down the regime").

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