Essays on Arab Spring
The Arab Spring is also known as the ‘Arab Awakening’ has shaken the whole of the Middle East region. This dynamic social movement has challenged the essentialist-Orientalist narratives about the Arab Middle East as people of a variety of social groups marched the streets protesting against the post-colonial authoritarian rule; calling for democracy and political...
A symbol can be defined as something representing something else by virtue of an analogical correspondence. It is an instrument in the construction of meaning often used to accomplish a particular objective. Moreover, it is likely to appear not only in many different locations in a particular context but also in a wide range of...
Following the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a poor street vendor in the hinterlands of Tunisia in December 2010, a series of pro-democracy protest movements erupted across seventeen Arab states, including Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, Jordan, and Morocco, revealing the scope of mass discontent and coming to be known collectively as the Arab Spring (Hamzawy, 2016; Bayat,...