The documents discuss the Arab Spring protests that began in late 2010 and spread across the Middle East and North Africa in 2011. The protests were sparked by the self-immolation of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in protest of corruption and police harassment. Inspired by the success of the Tunisian protests, similar protests broke out in countries like Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria demanding political reforms and the end of authoritarian regimes. While some countries have transitioned to new governments after the leaders were ousted, the situation remains unstable in Libya and Syria with competing factions struggling for power.

1. Influence of protests around the
world
Libya and Arab Spring..

3. Mohamed Bouazizi (29 March 1984 – 4 January 2011)
was a Tunisian street vendor
who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010
in protest of the confiscation of his wares
and the harassment and humiliation that he reported
was inflicted on him by a municipal official and her aides.
While standing in the middle of traffic, he
shouted "how do you expect me to
make a living?“
He then doused and set himself alight
with a matchstick.

4. Unrest around the Globe
• Despite being very different societies, the countries of
southern Europe and North Africa share some
problems such as Youth unemployment is sky-high
• The speed of events,
– the technology of globalization (money can be moved
instantly around the world;
– immediate communication is enabled by social media)
• simply swamped the old order -- whether an Arab
monarchy facing rebellious citizens or a European
government facing rebellious markets.
• a growing distrust of and resistance from political
leaders that has taken flight around the globe.

5. Clockwise from top left:
• Protesters gathering in
Tahir Square in Cairo,
Egypt;
• Demonstrators marching
through Habib Bourguib
Avenue in Tunis, Tunisia;
• Political dissidents in
Sana'a, Yemen, demanding
the resignation of the
president;
• Thousands of
demonstrators in
Karrana, Bahrain;
• Millions in Douma,
Damascus, Syria;
• Demonstrators in
Bayda, Libya.

6. Arab Awakening..

7. Source of Libya Uprising..
It was sparked by • With the success of
the first protests that the protests in Tunisia,
occurred in • a wave of unrest
Tunisia on sparked by the
18 December 2010 Tunisian "Burning
Man“ struck
..Following Mohd. • Algeria,
Bouazizi's self- • Jordan,
immolation
• Egypt,
in protest of police
corruption • Yemen,
and ill treatment. • Then to other
countries.

8. • The series of protests and demonstrations
across the Middle East and North Africa has
become known as the "Arab Spring“
• The protests in the Arab world caught the
worlds attention…
• Because..

9. Current Situation
• The same day, bowing to pressure from the local
militia holding Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi as a
prisoner, Prime Minister Abdel Rahim el-Keeb
appointed the militia’s commander to be the new
defense minister.
• The appointment came as the prime minister
named a new cabinet after weeks of bargaining
among the competing cities, tribes and militias
that formed the loose coalition that overthrew
the Qaddafi government but now are struggling
to share power.

10. • On Oct. 20, Colonel Qaddafi was killed as fighters battling the
vestiges of his fallen regime finally wrested control of his
hometown of Surt.
• By early November, many of the local militia leaders who helped
topple Colonel Qaddafi abandoned a pledge to give up their
weapons. They said that they intend to preserve their autonomy
and influence political decisions as “guardians of the revolution.”
• The council has pledged in a “constitutional declaration” that within
eight months after the selection of a new government, it will hold
elections for a national assembly, which will oversee the writing of a
constitution. Members voted to name as prime minister Abdel
Rahim el-Keeb, an electronics engineer and Qaddafi critic, who
spent most of his career abroad.

11. The Revolution-
• Now, in a matter of days and
weeks, we witnessed Tunisia
Egypt, now Yemen, oust its
leaders.
• >>Instead of guns, the
demonstrators chased the
dictators away by launching
Facebook, You Tube and Twitter.
• We’ve also seen unrest in the
most unlikely places: Morocco,
Bahrain, and incredulously,
Libya.
• And all of that lightning-fast
action was spread over mere
weeks.

12. The Libyan’s Point of View..
• The fact remains that this chain is interlink
• Triggered by Tunisia, then Egypt Libya and more .. one
voice of all nations…echoed and resonated..
• The regime in Egypt etc. are legacy of colonial order,
imposed by European, and later American
• Now we fight to their way of life as true Muslim nation
across middle east