Revolutions Arab Spring

Jasmine Revolution

The Tunisian Revolution

Mohamed Bouazizi

• set himself on fire in the middle of the street

• after he was humiliated by police officers

• happened in Tunisia

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

• was the dictator of Tunisia

• he was threatened by protests

• fled to Saudia Arabia

The January 25th Revolution

• period of mass protest in Egypt

• also what the Egyptian revolution is referred as

Hosni Mubarak

• The dictator of Egypt

• extremely oppressive (torture political opponents, widespread corruption, no freedom of speech)

• resigned due to widespread protests and gave power to SCAF

Mohammed Morisi

• the muslim brotherhood ran a candidate who won

• was overthrown in a military coup after only being president for a short amount of time

• corrupt

• under his rule bad economy

Abdel Fattah El Sisi

• military leader

• led the coup to overthrow morisi

• not free elections, human rights abuses, and economic hardships

• still in power

Muammar Gaddafi

• leader in Libya

• human rights violations bombed his people

• dragged into the street by protestors and killed

Bashar al-Assad

• leader in Syria for 40 years

• used chemical weapons

• just recently got out of power

SCAF

• A group of military officers who took control in Egypt when the interim gov was in place