Arab Spring
noun
: a series of anti-government uprisings affecting Arab countries of North Africa and the Middle East beginning in 2010
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Syria and Libya are very different countries, but Libya, too, experienced an Arab Spring revolution that pitted multiple armed groups against a longtime dictator.
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Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
Russia supported the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad against the uprisings of the Arab Spring in 2011 and saved it with direct military intervention beginning in 2015.
—Ronald H. Linden, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2025
The Arab Spring might still have one late bloom left.
—John Feffer, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Before the Arab Spring in 2011, Turkey and Syria were enjoying a rapprochement after a near century of, at best, strained relations.
—Alia Malek, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
Russia supported the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad against the uprisings of the Arab Spring in 2011 and saved it with direct military intervention beginning in 2015.
—Ronald H. Linden, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2025
The Arab Spring might still have one late bloom left.
—John Feffer, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Before the Arab Spring in 2011, Turkey and Syria were enjoying a rapprochement after a near century of, at best, strained relations.
—Alia Malek, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Arab Spring.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Arab%20Spring. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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