Arab Awakening – the Revolution Wave in Egypt

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ARAB AWAKENING – THE REVOLUTION WAVE IN EGYPT “A riot is the language of the unheard.” - Martin Luther King Jr. Occurred on 18 December 2010, ‘Arab Awakening’ or ‘Arab Spring’ may be the most recent political uprising. It is a huge wave of revolutions and demonstrations broke out in Arabian countries and it has various forms of status among the involved countries1. In Syria and Bahrain, ‘Arab Awakening’ happened in the form of a civil uprising while in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, it was rulers overthrowing. However, despite different conformations, the goals of ‘Arab Spring’ in any involved states are the same2, which are democracy, free election, the guarantee of human right and the change of political regime. ‘Arab Awakening’ is still continuing to this day and it is still a hot issue of the International Relations. In this proposal, I will approach and explain the revolutionary wave in Arab World in the view of Liberalism. For more details, I will select ‘The Egyptian Revolution of 2011’ as the focal object to analyze this matter. ‘The Egyptian Revolution of 2011’ is one of the main events of Arab Spring which broke out in January 2011 by various socio-economic and religious backgrounds. It carried out a non-violent and peaceful campaign of civil resistance that consisted of marches, demonstrations, and labour strikes in order to force President Hosni Mubarak to resign. The fact that, Mr. Mubarak was Egyptian head of state from 1981 to 2011 and this 30 year term made him the longest-serving president in Egypt history. However, President Mubarak was criticized a lot by domestic as well as external medias in his tenure because of his authoritarian rule and many more problems. The following are some major concerns that I want to go into details since they are the causes of the Egyptian revolution: 1. The corruption of power: According to the
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