"There is nothing permanent in life except change. - Heraclitus" Nowadays, the Arab world in the Middle East is undergoing enormous change. Those changes, known as the Arab Spring, have resulted in a new outlook in many countries, like Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, and Libya. Recently, people living in Egypt, for example, made it their life’s goal to speak up against the corruption of their government or die trying. In fact, according to an Amnesty International report, during the protests of 2012 against former Egypt president Hosni Mubarak, at least 840 people were killed and another 6,000 people were injured (JURIST - Egypt Revolution Resulted in at Least 840 Deaths: Amnesty Report). People of all ages gathered in streets for the purpose
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Those causes are the reason over two million people managed to protest together in the same place even though they had no forms of communication between them, as during that time, the government shut down all communication lines. Those causes are the reason people decided that it was better to leave their jobs and homes to knowingly participate in a revolution in which many people are getting killed at. According to the African Development Bank, the political origins of the Arab Spring are connected to the inability of the governments of those countries to adequately respond to the growing demands good governance and job creation. Also, poor human development, lack of economic opportunities, lack of security, and violation of human rights are huge causes of the revolution (Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt and …show more content…
According to Julia Zinkina, 20% of Egyptian lives on less than $2 a day (Egyptian Revolution: A Demographic Structural Analysis). Not only was the a large of people living below the poverty line, but also the prices of essential living items, such as food, gas, electricity. Etc., was quickly rising. The fast growth of the food prices in Egypt led to an even faster growth in the number of Egyptians living under the extreme poverty line. In fact, in 2008, many organizations formed including “April 6th movement”, which aimed to express the worker’s dissent of the decreased standard of living due to the inflated prices and low
Those causes are the reason over two million people managed to protest together in the same place even though they had no forms of communication between them, as during that time, the government shut down all communication lines. Those causes are the reason people decided that it was better to leave their jobs and homes to knowingly participate in a revolution in which many people are getting killed at. According to the African Development Bank, the political origins of the Arab Spring are connected to the inability of the governments of those countries to adequately respond to the growing demands good governance and job creation. Also, poor human development, lack of economic opportunities, lack of security, and violation of human rights are huge causes of the revolution (Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt and …show more content…
According to Julia Zinkina, 20% of Egyptian lives on less than $2 a day (Egyptian Revolution: A Demographic Structural Analysis). Not only was the a large of people living below the poverty line, but also the prices of essential living items, such as food, gas, electricity. Etc., was quickly rising. The fast growth of the food prices in Egypt led to an even faster growth in the number of Egyptians living under the extreme poverty line. In fact, in 2008, many organizations formed including “April 6th movement”, which aimed to express the worker’s dissent of the decreased standard of living due to the inflated prices and low