... Arabiya, the BBC, and CNN played a critical role while covering the revolution. Lynch ( 2006 , 5) has already highlighted the role of satellite television, including Al Jazeera, in creating an Arab public sphere and in prompting revolutionized political behavior. The Tunisian Revolution has forced...

..., www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2018 Tunisian revolution development indicators regional disparities Following Tunisia’s independence from France in 1956, the country was characterized by regional and local imbalances between the north and the center, on the one hand, and the south...

... with the Tunisian revolution and democratic structure, and the Egyptian revolution and © 2013 The Centre for Arab Unity Studies Contemporary Arab Affairs, 2013 Vol. 6, No. 1, 120 125, httpdx.doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2013.763540 democratic structure in a transitional stage, and proceeding through the horizons...

... with outside culture and civilization, and even their understanding of the entirety of Islam itself. Thus, he calls the Tunisian revolution the betrayed revolution , and explains that all that the poor and the unemployed have called for has gone with the wind or, at best, become dreams, as they await...

... and political conditions which needed only a spark to explode forth. The Tunisian revolution was the catalyst that insti- gated the Egyptian revolt and uprisings in other countries. Despite the limited significance of Tunisia in the regional Arab system, its role in breaking the barrier of fear was of paramount...

... and political liberty, to legalize the political parties, to improve the economic situation, and to restore the prestige of the state (Amara 2011). Among the many achievements of the Tunisian Revolution for Dignity and Freedom , as the masses were calling it, was the legalization of different political...

... up until the outbreak of the Tunisian revolution only hopes alluded to in Arab discourse and relegated to the realm of impossibility. These articles revolve around the stirrings of liberation from authoritarianism and auto- cracy and democratic transition as well as the nature of Arab mass movement...

... the new statehood strategy. Foreign Affairs, 90 (5), 102 113. 320 Bibliography Fadel, Mohammad, 2011. Modernist Islamic political thought and the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions of 2011. Middle East Law and Governance, 3 (1 2), 94 104. Fakhro, Ali Mohammed, 2011. Repercussions of the Arab movements...

... circumstances. In an effort to understand all that has transpired since the outbreak of the Tunisian Revo- lution, including the ensuing revolutions, intifadas, protests and bloody infighting, as is currently the case in Syria, the testimonies assess various transitional stages and their relevant events, while...

... Tunisians who supported at the time the call for Tunisian women to give it up, accusing them of confusing between secularism and progress . He saw the hijab as part of the Tunisian personality against colonialism s attempt to obliterate this person- ality s salient features. Second: the revolution s...

... of Islamism: Rethinking the Meaning of Islam and The Political. Insight Turkey 15 (1): 111 125. Allani, Alaya, 2013. The Post-Revolution Tunisian Constituent Assembly: Controversy Over Powers and Prerogatives. Journal of North African Studies 18 (1): 131 140. Barkey, Henri J., 2012. Turkish Iranian...

..., was an obvious and much commented on cat- alyst for the Egyptian revolution. Throughout the first half of January, a number of Egyptians, following the example of Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi, set themselves on fire as a form of protest against the government. Behind the scenes and facilitated by social media...

... settlements in the West Bank and changed the course of roads, all of which resulted in the partition of Palesti- nian land and the disintegration of social life. The success of the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions inspired a sense of power and agency in youth in other Arab countries, and encouraged them...

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.... Gana, Nouri, ed. 2017. The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects. Reviewed by Yosr Ben Slima. Journal of North African Studies 22 (2): 317 320. Hakim, Carol. 2017. The Origins of the Lebanese National Idea, 1840 1920. Reviewed by Joan Chaker. Arab Studies Journal 25 (1...

... bin Abdul Aziz as a Saudi Second Deputy Prime Minister (Al-Hayat, Beirut, 2 Feb- ruary 2013). Tunisia . Tunisia celebrated the second anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution amid an atmosphere of political tension, frustration and growing Islamic extremism, in 492 Chronology addition to the failure...

...Rashid al-Ghanoushi CONTACT Rashid al-Ghanoushi rghannoushi@hotmail.com © 2016 The Centre for Arab Unity Studies 2016 Interview Rashid al-Ghanoushi President of the al-Nahdah movement, Tunisia Introduction Tunisian-born Sheikh Rashid al-Ghanoushi (also spelled Rached al...

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... in power. Bouazizi s story is widely known by now and credited with triggering the Tunisian revolution (Hermez 2011) and sparking revolutionary fires elsewhere in North Africa and the Near East. Months later in Cairo, time stood still as another Arab nation experienced a historic moment. On 3 August 2011...

..., and to participating in decision-making through election. Unlike the aforementioned universities, the elements of the Napoleonic government remained in existence at the Tunisian University throughout the periods of emergence and structural transformation, until the triumph of the Jasmin Revolution of 2011...