Sentences with phrase «arab spring started»

This is incredible news as the region has seen a dramatic decrease in tourism since the Arab Spring started back in late 2010.

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He concluded, «Ultimately, the future of missions to Muslims will be affected less by the flames of 9/11, or even the flames that started the Arab Spring, than by the inner flames that are ignited if we so follow our Lord, who modeled the basin and the towel, that our Muslim friends may echo the words of the disciples in Emmaus: «Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?
The civil war started with the Arab Spring.
But what we refer to as the Arab Spring really started in Tunisia, with a young man called Mohamed Bouazizi who, frustrated with his unemployment, high food prices and the harassment he endured by public officials, set himself on fire in December 2010.
THE power of social media to influence politics is one of the narratives of our time — Obama's US presidential win in 2008 was hailed as the Facebook election and the debate over how much social media jump - started the Arab Spring still goes on.
Starting with the Arab Spring and fight against Syria's Assad regime, through the brutal takeover by the Islamic State, a group of citizen journalists has been documenting life inside Raqqa under deadly circumstances.
Bread affected the start of the French Revolution, and during the Arab Spring, there was a shortage of wheat.
Surely Syria's war started when protests against Bashar al - Assad's dictatorship were met with state violence: it grew out of the Arab spring, not western intervention.
The starting point for Stan Douglas's latest works is 2010 - 11: a period that saw several uprisings around the world: the Arab Spring that spread across the Middle East and North Africa, and riots in cities including Vancouver and London.
An essay by Sarah Johnstone and Jeffrey Mazo entitled, Global Warming and Arab Spring, draws a convincing line that the pressure on food prices was a contributor to the start of the revolutions of the Arab Spring — the tumultuous uprising against many Arab governments.
The various Arab Spring countries have shown a tripling and sometimes quadrupling of local populations in the decades before unrest started — a population rise that UN models forecast will continue throughout the region.
The recent drought in Syria that we wrote about before (lasting from from 2007 - 2011 — the onset of the Arab Spring) is part of larger, longer - lasting drought in the Eastern Mediterranean, also referred to as Levant, that the authors say started around the year 1998.
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