The West and the Muslim Brotherhood after the Arab Spring
Lorenzo Vidino
Before December 2010, virtually no one had heard of Mohammed Bouazizi outside of the dilapidated central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid. Yet when he set himself on fire in front of the local governor’s office, in a desperate protest gesture against the confiscation of his goods and the apparent humiliation he suffered at the hands of the local police, the poor fruit seller became the symbol of a protest movement that engulfed first Tunisia and then large swaths of the Arab world, changing the region’s history
Année:
2013
Editeur::
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Langue:
english
Pages:
157
Fichier:
PDF, 1.87 MB
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english, 2013