#Bahrain was forcibly pried from #Iran under the Shah despite a 70-80% #Shia population and placed under Sunni rule.
An #ArabSpring uprising there - which very suspiciously did not topple "monarchies" - was brutally suppressed in 2011.
THIS is a legitimate native uprising.
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Ich bin so alt, ich erinnere mich noch an die Charme-Offensive eines gewissen #Obama gegenüber der islamischen Welt 2009. Die prowestliche Stimmung des #ArabSpring 2011. Aber sie wollten es drüben in den Staaten ja anders haben. 😐
#USA #MiddleEast
Der größere Teil der Bevölkerung von #Bahrain ist schiitisch, die Elite sunnitisch. Der Konflikt führte im #ArabSpring 2011 vorübergehend zu Protesten, die mit Hilfe der Saudis niedergeschlagen wurden. Was bedeutet das im dem gegenwärtigen Krieg?
#IranWar
WHO THE HELL DO THEY THINK THEY ARE KIDDING?
#OctoberSuprise no longer just happens in October….
ACTS OF WAR BY REMOVING HEADS OF STATE BASED ON FALSE CLAIMS…
#ArabSpring #MuslimBrotherhood
#WeaponsofMassDestruction all the same bullshit…..
War thirsty mongrels
Putin is a FAILURE…Asian
#ArabSpring ……same as #FreePalestine bullshit that took down Egypt…. #IslamicTerrorism never went away, they traded it in for a different costume…..
Egypt Revealed, But Only to a Point - #Egypt #travel #tours #writing #memoir #author #ArabSpring #freedom buff.ly/DU7XTv2
The first #ArabSpring protests in #Libya began in mid-Jan., but they picked up steam in early Feb., and on #ThisDayInHistory in 2011 was the first "day of rage". With its weak official military & well-armed local groups, #Gaddafi's use of mercenaries made the situation dangerous.
The #PearlRoundabout was first cleared of protesters on #ThisDayInHistory in 2011. The #ArabSpring in #Bahrain was fraught given its sectarian régime. #TearGas, birdshot rounds, and swinging clubs left four dead and 300+ wounded. Calls to depose the king grew louder thereafter.
When the #ArabSpring reached #Syria, the #anarchist #OmarAziz worked to establish #SelfDefence and #MutualAid committees. He was arrested by the #Assad régime in November 2012 and died on #ThisDayInHistory in 2023 in #AdraPrison, one of the countless victims of Ba'athist cruelty.
The #ArabUprisings/#ArabSpring spread to #Bahrain on #ThisDayInHistory in 2011 with 6000 joining a #DayOfRage. At its height ~150,000 filled #PearlRoundabout in #Manama, half its population. But hosting a US base & minority sectarian rule meant this one would be crushed by force.
The Egyptian military deposed #HosniMubarak on #ThisDayInHistory in 2011, just one day after he gave a speech refusing to step down. #Mubarak's 'resignation' was announced by his veep and power was passed directly to the military, tarnishing the second success of the #ArabSpring.
Historical gaps are part of the process as YA begin to understand what came b4 them, but my interaction w/ 19-25 yr olds w/ NO knowledge of #apartheid; #Rwanda (30 yrs since genocide of 800,000 in 100 Days); #ArabSpring; #Gitmo & #AbuGhraib; #Snowden, #slavery & #colonialism has left me depressed.
Fifteen years after Egypt’s uprising, how faith and politics reshaped a generation #ArabSpring #CopticChristians #Egypt #HosniMubarak #Islam #MuslimBrotherhood #Muslims #Quran #Religionandsociety #Salafism
Frederick Sefton Jenkins Wojnarowski's "Hirak and Hosha: Modalities of Collective Action in #Jordan in the Wake of the #ArabSpring" is now out on FirstView! #protest #tribes #Anthropology #History
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Fifteen years have passed since the start of the #EgyptianRevolution, which led to the overthrow of the Mubarak regime on 25 January 2011.
In #TheCurrentColumn, Amirah El Haddad reflects on the lost promise of the #ArabSpring in Egypt: www.idos-research.de/en/the-curre...
Always happy to show his imperialist colours, #TonyBlair, in an interview with #PiersMorgan on #ThisDayInHistory in 2011, called Egyptian dictator #HosniMubarak a "courageous... force for good", and warned against letting the #ArabSpring create a real, actual democracy in #Egypt.
Please check out my conversation on @legalafmtn.bsky.social of @meidastouch.com with Robert Worth of the @theatlantic.com on citizen resistance in #Minneapolis to the #ICE occupation and the parallels to his experiences reporting on the #ArabSpring. youtu.be/43H-VU2_4Yc?...
And 15 years ago, young men and women filled the streets to resume their quest for a free Egypt. We knew it as the Friday of Anger. And it was the truest and purest form of protest I have ever experienced. #Egypt #EgyptianRevolution #FridayofAnger #ArabSpring
The #ArabUprisings/#ArabSpring reached #Yemen in force on #ThisDayInHistory in 2011, when 16,000 protestors took over #Sanaa. The #YemeniRevolution succeeding in deposing #AliAbdullahSaleh, but has failed to stabilize, being riven by old grievances and suffering foreign attacks.
A composite collage of photos the protest camps of Tahrir in Cairo, Egypt in 2011 during the Arab Spring on top, and of Maidan in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2014 during Euromaidan on the bottom.
Never underestimate the power of urban camping. #protest
#Tahrir #Egypt #Cairo #ArabSpring
#Maidan #Ukraine #Kyiv #Euromaidan
#AmericanWinter needs an #ArabSpring
@democracynow.org
@indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @moveon.org @generalstrikeus.bsky.social @thedemcoalition.bsky.social @occupydemocrats.bsky.social @democracydocket.com @occupydemocrats.bsky.social
Reminder on #Egypt's #Jan25 anniversary.
Never forget all those smug commentators in the US and Europe who kept making jokes about the #ArabSpring failing while their governments provided support, technology, and weapons to our tyrannts..
Transparency for the powerful, encryption for the masses. (paraphrasing Julian Assange)
#ArabSpring #Egypt #EgyptRevolution #Facebook #Meta #encryption #protest #protests #revolution #meshNetworks #Assange
Exactly 15 years ago today, Egyptian men and women took to the streets and protested against tyranny and poverty. Their demands? Bread, freedom, and social justice.
#Egypt #EgyptianRevolution #25January #ArabSpring
The #MovementForADemocraticSociety was founded #ThisDayInHistory in 2011, following the first success in the "#ArabSpring", by #Syrian #Kurds hoping to see a transition to decentralized #DemocraticConfederalism. It is largely #Kurdish though its goals are pan-ethnic & #socialist.
Ok Arabs you've seen how it's done in Tunisia; Tag you're it! https://x.com/MMM/status/25996287702728704 https://archive.is/gZIRp
@subzeroblue.bsky.social, 15 years ago today:
"Ok Arabs you've seen how it's done in Tunisia; Tag you're it!"
#arabspring
Former president/dictator #BenAli of #Tunisia fled the country on #ThisDayInHistory in 2011, taking refuge in #SaudiArabia when #France refused him (bad press). Success in the #JasmineRevolution inspired other #Arab publics in the widespread #2011ArabUprisings, aka #ArabSpring.
St. Edward’s University
Social media didn’t just report the Arab Spring—it spark it. Online spikes came b4 protests, m via Arabic Facebook & Twitter.
sites.stedwards.edu/pangaea/the-...
#ArabSpring #SocialMedia #veteransspeakout #Facebook #DigitalActivism #mericaspring
St. Edward’s University
Social media didn’t just report the Arab Spring—it spark it. Online spikes came b4 protests, m via Arabic Facebook & Twitter.
sites.stedwards.edu/pangaea/the-...
#ArabSpring #SocialMedia #veteransspeakout #Facebook #DigitalActivism #mericaspring
St. Edward’s University piece
Social media didn’t just report the Arab Spring—it helped spark it. Online spikes came b4 protests, m via Arabic Facebook & Twitter.
Source: St. Edward’s University
sites.stedwards.edu/pangaea/the-...
#ArabSpring #SocialMedia #Twitter #Facebook #DigitalActivism
