DISCUSS THE CAUSES, OR INCIDENCE AND EVALUATE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE REVOLUTION IN ARAB AFRICAN OF RECENT.
UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT: POLITICAL SCIENCE COURSE TITLE: REVOLUTION AND SOCIETY COURSE CODE: PLS 416 Introduction Arab Spring, wave of pro-democracy protests and uprisings that took place in the Middle East and North Africa beginning in 2010 and 2011, challenging some of the region’s entrenched authoritarian regimes. The wave began when protests in Tunisia and Egypt toppled their regimes in quick succession, inspiring similar attempts in other Arab countries. Not every country saw success in the protest movement, however, and demonstrators expressing their political and economic grievances were often met with violent crackdowns by their countries’ security forces. The Arab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي, romanized: ar-rabīʻ al-ʻarabī) or the First Arab Spring was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in Tunisia in response to c...