Awakening of arabic peninsula

W R I T I N G H I S T O R Y

AWAKENING OF ARABIC PENINSULA

PRESENTERS

SADDAM TARIQ 2010-PET-65

SAJID AMIN 2010-PET-63

CONTENTS

REVOLUTION : A PUBLIC OPINION

HOW SULTANS REMAIN IN POWER

HOW SULTANS DEMORALIZE THE REVOLUTION

REVOLUTION IN TUNISIA

EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION

YEMENI REVOLUTION

REVOLUTION IN LIBYA

CONCLUSION

REVOLUTION: A PUBLIC OPINION

• Time Magazine declares

THE PROTESTER, person of the

year 2011

• Expectations of Positive change

• Change of Face or Change of

System ??

HOW PEOPLE VISUALIZE THE SPRING

16%

23%

55%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

More pessimistic

Feeling no change

More optimistic

When you reflect on the Arab Spring, are you more optimistic or more pessimistic than before about the future of the Arab world?

Reuters Survey, on Arab Spring, 2011

HOW SULTANS REMAIN IN POWER

• Self enrichment and pleasing Elites

• Support from Western Governments

• Controlling Military by keeping them divided

• Monarchial Democracy

HOW SULTANS DEMORALIZE THE REVOLUTION

• Use of power, when the revolution sparks

• Facilitating the mob by increasing wages

• Media publications are censored and banned

TURNING POINT…

• Bouazizi the fruitseller of Tunisia Ignited the fire

• Khaled Said’s executions enraged Egyptians

• Ali Saleh’s and Gaddafi’s illegitimate resistance fueled the fire

• Social networking fueled the revolution

TUNISIA: THE WHISTLEBLOWER

Defects of the State:

• Unemployed youth exceeded the limits

• Self employment was limited

• That raised to a Hero Engr. Abdullah Bouazizi

TUNISIA: THE WHISTLEBLOWER

Defects of the State:

• Unemployed youth exceeded the limits

• Self employment was limited

• That raised to a Hero Engr. Abdullah Bouazizi

HERO OF JASMINE REVOLUTION

• Unemployed Petroleum Engineer, Bouazizi

• Harassed by police because of selling without

permit

• Burned himself on 17 of December

• The public mobilizes

HERO OF JASMINE REVOLUTION

• Unemployed Engineer, Bouazizi

• Harassed by police because of selling without

permit

• Burned himself on 17 of December

• The public mobilizes

DAWN IN TUNISIA

• Ben Ali overthrown within a month

• Transparent Democratic system

FIRE REACHES EGYPT

Defects of the state

• Poor education and inflation

• Majority of Unemployed Youth

• Hosni Mobarak’s long tiring regime

‘ERHAL’ HOSNI MOBARAK

• Egyptians Inspired by Jasmine Revolutions

• Slogan of the revolution ‘Erhal’ GET OUT

• Tahrir Square, symbol of Egyptian Revolution

MISSION ‘ERHAL’ ACCOMPLISHED

• Hosni Mubarak put under trial

• Polling for a NEW PARLIAMENT recently

• Future of Egypt ?

MISSION ‘CHANGE’ ACCOMPLISHED

• Hosni Mubarak put under trial

• Polling for a NEW PARLIAMENT recently

• Future of Egypt ?

FUTURE OF EGYPT

10%

11%

30%

32%

-10% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

A nationalist party

A pan-Arab party

A liberal party

An Islamic party

If the parliamentary elections were held today, what type of

party would you be likely to vote for? (EGYPT ONLY)

Times Magazine, survey

YEMEN

Defects of the state

• Despite high revenue, inflation was at

height

• Corruption at peak, higher than the other

Arab States

• Yemen democracy cum kingdom

• Poor education system

DOWN WITH ALI SALEH

• Deprivation drives the mass

• Al-Steen street, the significance of Yemen uprising

• Ali saleh pulled of 3 months ago

• Elections hoped to be held soon

LIBYA

Defects in Libya

• Hurting Islamic Sentiments of the

people

• Long tiring Regime of Gaddafi

marking Monarchy

• Anti-Arab World Policies

QADDAFI KILLED

• NATO backed the rebels

• No significant protests, just rebels

• Finally Qaddafi killed

• Rebels took charge of Libya

CONCLUSION

• 1848 revolt in Europe: Rising prices and

Unemployment

• 1989 Soviet Union: corrupt political system and

disinfection elites

• 1979 Khomeni Revolution: anti-Islamic and Pro-

Western