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ered by the self- immolation of an overeducated 26-year-old Tunisian vegetable seller whose cart was repeatedly confiscated by the authorities. After Mohamed Bouazizi was slapped by a policewoman when he tried to complain, he reached the end of his tether. Bouazizi’s public suicide turned into a social movement bec
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023482 →a sizeable advantage. This is not naïve or farfetched. After all, it was the plight of Tunisian vendor HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031929 --- PAGE BREAK --- 18 Mohamed Bouazizi and the symbolism of his fate that sparked all the revolutions across the Middle East. The images of the rebels in Libya liberating their country (as
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the Muslim Brotherhood
Organizationthe West Bank
Location
Lebanon
LocationCountry in West Asia

Fatah
OrganizationPalestinian nationalist political party

Saddam Hussein
PersonIraqi president, army officer and Baathist politician (1937–2006)

Bashar al-Assad
PersonPresident of Syria from 2000 to 2024

Bill Clinton
PersonPresident of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1946)

Hosni Mubarak
PersonPresident of Egypt from 1981 to 2011

Tunisia
LocationCountry in North Africa

Barack Obama
PersonPresident of the United States from 2009 to 2017

Aleppo
LocationCity in Aleppo Governorate, Syria

Yemen
LocationCountry in West Asia

United States
LocationCountry located primarily in North America

Damascus
LocationCapital and largest city of Syria

George W. Bush
PersonPresident of the United States from 2001 to 2009

Benjamin Netanyahu
PersonPrime Minister of Israel (1996–1999; 2009–2021; since 2022)

Gamal Abdel Nasser
PersonPresident of Egypt from 1956 to 1970

Condoleezza Rice
PersonAmerican diplomat and political scientist (born 1954)

Jerusalem
LocationCity in the Middle East, holy to the three Abrahamic religions

Cairo
LocationCapital city of Egypt