The Arab Spring

The Arab Spring

Almost 3 years ago an unemployed, desperate, yet angry man who’s in charge of earning money to his siblings had set himself in flames in front of the Tunisian municipality building. His flaming suicide attempt was the Arab world’s most literal spark. It has not only enraged the Tunisian people, but also Arab countries from east to west which then provoked the Arab spring. This incident has led to a series of protests that started in Tunisia followed by Egypt and unfortunately still hasn’t ended in Syria. The prices of the Arab were both negative and positive in some different aspects.

It all started on the 17th of December 2010 when a 26-year-old man named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in front of the Tunisian municipality in Sidi Bouzid, a small poverty-stricken town. He was a street vendor who sold vegetables and fruits even though he had earned a university degree yet he still managed to struggle in finding a well-paid job to earn a living to himself and his family. During one of his regular workdays, a policewoman stopped him from selling his goods, fined him, and banned him from using his own vegetable cart. But that was not it, she also allegedly slapped him, spat on him, and cursed his dead father. Bouazizi felt extremely humiliated, crushed, and defenseless. Furthermore, he headed to the municipal located in Sidi Bouzid to file a complaint hoping that someone would listen to him but unfortunately they shut him down. In addition to this sequel of disappointments, he felt extremely desperate and powerless, and did not find any other way to denounce the unfair and abusive treatment he got from both the policewoman and municipal but to set his own body in fire. 18 days after his suicide attempt, Bouazizi...

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...as backfired itself by allowing different political parties to also demand to speak up and deliver contradicting point of views from one another like in Egypt and Tunisia. Although the eviction of dictatorial rulers was fascinating but for that reason governmental systems collapsed and none of them have been able to satisfy at least the majority of the people likewise in Tunisia and Egypt.

In conclusion, the Arab spring might have chained down some groundbreaking rules and allowed more freedom of speech which could be superb. Without doubt it created a huge stamp in history and throughout the whole world but the consequences have generated tremendous losses in all kinds of aspects that have enormously damaged current conditions of each and every country. But to them it really didn’t matter as long as the reward is exactly what they were seeking or fighting for.