Revolts in the Arab world: is it bad news for Islamic terrorists?
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Everything started when a young man set himself on fire in the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. Mohamed Bouazizi, this was his name, was selling fruit and vegetables on the street without a license. After a policewoman stopped hi...
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| description | <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Everything started when a young man set himself on fire in the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. Mohamed Bouazizi, this was his name, was selling fruit and vegetables on the street without a license. After a policewoman stopped him and confiscated his cart and produce, he felt so angry and desperate that he took that drastic decision. It was December 17</span><span class="s2"><sup>th</sup></span><span class="s1">,2010. Since then a long series of demonstrations, riots and revolts have quickly and unabatedly spread from Tunisia throughout the Arab world. Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Oman and Bahrain, among others, were all affected in one way or another by these events. Tunisia’s President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted and Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak experienced the same fate. </span> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-daf33094c31a4b92bdc7a7c77a2e09422022-12-21T19:56:07ZengUniversity of St AndrewsJournal of Terrorism Research2049-70402011-04-012110.15664/jtr.179176Revolts in the Arab world: is it bad news for Islamic terrorists?Eugenio Lilli<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Everything started when a young man set himself on fire in the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. Mohamed Bouazizi, this was his name, was selling fruit and vegetables on the street without a license. After a policewoman stopped him and confiscated his cart and produce, he felt so angry and desperate that he took that drastic decision. It was December 17</span><span class="s2"><sup>th</sup></span><span class="s1">,2010. Since then a long series of demonstrations, riots and revolts have quickly and unabatedly spread from Tunisia throughout the Arab world. Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Oman and Bahrain, among others, were all affected in one way or another by these events. Tunisia’s President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted and Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak experienced the same fate. </span>http://jtr.st-andrews.ac.uk/articles/179Arab Spring |
| spellingShingle | Eugenio Lilli Revolts in the Arab world: is it bad news for Islamic terrorists? Journal of Terrorism Research Arab Spring |
| title | Revolts in the Arab world: is it bad news for Islamic terrorists? |
| title_full | Revolts in the Arab world: is it bad news for Islamic terrorists? |
| title_fullStr | Revolts in the Arab world: is it bad news for Islamic terrorists? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Revolts in the Arab world: is it bad news for Islamic terrorists? |
| title_short | Revolts in the Arab world: is it bad news for Islamic terrorists? |
| title_sort | revolts in the arab world is it bad news for islamic terrorists |
| topic | Arab Spring |
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