2. AWAKENING OF ARABIC
PENINSULA
WRITING HISTORY
PRESENTERS
SADDAM TARIQ 2010-PET-65
SAJID AMIN 2010-PET-63

3. CONTENTS
 REVOLUTION : A PUBLIC OPINION
 HOW SULTANS REMAIN IN POWER
 HOW SULTANS DEMORALIZE THE REVOLUTION
 REVOLUTION IN TUNISIA
 EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION
 YEMENI REVOLUTION
 REVOLUTION IN LIBYA
 CONCLUSION

4. REVOLUTION: A PUBLIC OPINION
• Time Magazine declares
THE PROTESTER, person of the
year 2011
• Expectations of Positive change
• Change of Face or Change of
System ??

5. HOW PEOPLE VISUALIZE THE SPRING
When you reflect on the Arab Spring, are you more optimistic or
more pessimistic than before about the future of the Arab world?
More optimistic 55%
Feeling no change 23%
More pessimistic 16%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Reuters Survey, on Arab Spring, 2011

6. HOW SULTANS REMAIN IN POWER
• Self enrichment and pleasing Elites
• Support from Western Governments
• Controlling Military by keeping them divided
• Monarchial Democracy

7. HOW SULTANS DEMORALIZE THE
REVOLUTION
• Use of power, when the revolution sparks
• Facilitating the mob by increasing wages
• Media publications are censored and banned

8. TURNING POINT…
• Bouazizi the fruitseller of Tunisia Ignited the fire
• Khaled Said’s executions enraged Egyptians
• Ali Saleh’s and Gaddafi’s illegitimate resistance fueled the fire
• Social networking fueled the revolution

9. TUNISIA: THE WHISTLEBLOWER
Defects of the State:
• Unemployed youth exceeded the limits
• Self employment was limited
• That raised to a Hero Engr. Abdullah Bouazizi

11. TUNISIA: THE WHISTLEBLOWER
Defects of the State:
• Unemployed youth exceeded the limits
• Self employment was limited
• That raised to a Hero Engr. Abdullah Bouazizi

12. HERO OF JASMINE REVOLUTION
• Unemployed Petroleum Engineer, Bouazizi
• Harassed by police because of selling without
permit
• Burned himself on 17 of December
• The public mobilizes

14. HERO OF JASMINE REVOLUTION
• Unemployed Engineer, Bouazizi
• Harassed by police because of selling without
permit
• Burned himself on 17 of December
• The public mobilizes

15. DAWN IN TUNISIA
• Ben Ali overthrown within a month
• Transparent Democratic system

16. FIRE REACHES EGYPT
Defects of the state
• Poor education and inflation
• Majority of Unemployed Youth
• Hosni Mobarak’s long tiring regime

17. ‘ERHAL’ HOSNI MOBARAK
• Egyptians Inspired by Jasmine Revolutions
• Slogan of the revolution ‘Erhal’ GET OUT
• Tahrir Square, symbol of Egyptian Revolution

19. MISSION ‘ERHAL’ ACCOMPLISHED
• Hosni Mubarak put under trial
• Polling for a NEW PARLIAMENT recently
• Future of Egypt ?

21. MISSION ‘CHANGE’ ACCOMPLISHED
• Hosni Mubarak put under trial
• Polling for a NEW PARLIAMENT recently
• Future of Egypt ?

22. FUTURE OF EGYPT
If the parliamentary elections were held today, what type of
party would you be likely to vote for? (EGYPT ONLY)
An Islamic party 32%
A liberal party 30%
A pan-Arab party 11%
A nationalist party 10%
-10% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Times Magazine, survey

23. YEMEN
Defects of the state
• Despite high revenue, inflation was at
height
• Corruption at peak, higher than the other
Arab States
• Yemen democracy cum kingdom
• Poor education system

24. DOWN WITH ALI SALEH
• Deprivation drives the mass
• Al-Steen street, the significance of Yemen uprising
• Ali saleh pulled of 3 months ago
• Elections hoped to be held soon

25. LIBYA
Defects in Libya
• Hurting Islamic Sentiments of the
people
• Long tiring Regime of Gaddafi
marking Monarchy
• Anti-Arab World Policies

26. QADDAFI KILLED
• NATO backed the rebels
• No significant protests, just rebels
• Finally Qaddafi killed
• Rebels took charge of Libya

28. CONCLUSION
• 1848 revolt in Europe: Rising prices and
Unemployment
• 1989 Soviet Union: corrupt political system and
disinfection elites
• 1979 Khomeni Revolution: anti-Islamic and Pro-
Western