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Ten years after the start of the Arab Spring, most of the countries in the region are still ruled by autocrats or wiped out by civil wars. But people’s perspective has changed. The younger generation, in particular, no longer accept their fate without resistance.
Other autocrats in the region could also suffer a fate similar to that of Tunisian ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who was ousted in 2011.
Following the self-immolation of greengrocer Mohamed Bouazizi in a provincial city of Tunisia on December 17, 2010, demonstrations broke out across the country. The sparks of the revolution spread to other countries in North Africa and the Middle East in the following months. In Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, mass protests led to the resignation of longtime rulers. In Libya, Muammar al-Ghadhafi was forcibly toppled. In Syria, Bahrain and Iraq too, people flocked to the squares to demand more freedom, social justice and political participation.
