Tunisia

According to the UN development programme in 2002, the Middle East have witnessed high level of poverty, inequality, and gender gaps. All these factors have caused the Arab Spring. Although we have heard from the west about success stories of Egypt in terms of economic performance, according to the neo-liberal thinkers. However it has been argued that the rise of economy was due to the revolution. This statement can be questioned, as many left wings will argue that since introducing capitalism…

Arab Nations. The most recent attacks have taken place in Tunisia and Yemen. In CNN’s article, Amid Saudi Arabia 's airstrikes in Yemen, Houthis call for peace talks, “Saudi Arabia’s military spokesman says the objective has been achieved in Yemen” (Tawfeeq et al). This objective being the death of civilians in Yemen. It is said that over forty civilians have been killed in the most recent airstrike. While this was happening in Yemen, Tunisia experienced a mass shooting at a local museum.…

Africa’, this was when Europe had essentially partitioned Africa. However, Italy did manage to obtain a few small and poor colonies in East Africa. They wanted Tunisia but this was seized by France. Italy argued that, as Tunisia was only a few miles away from Sicily, it had a right to Tunisia due to proximity . Since Italy was denied Tunisia, they looked to Libya. Libya was still under the control of the Ottoman Turks, and was nominally an Ottoman province in the 20th Century. But the Ottoman’s…

phenomenon that is direct consequence of the colonial times is political systems. In the hundred years since the creation of such the Middle East, no country has become a genuine democracy in the Western sense, except, perhaps after the Arab Spring, Tunisia. The stability of many countries is based mostly on fear of the authorities. States with the royal houses proved to be the countries with stronger legitimacy of power than others.…

Arab Spring Arab Spring made trending news due to many protests happening in Syria, Algeria, and Tunisia. It all started with a man who lived in Tunisia named Mohamed Bouazizi according to (Gutierres). Bouazizi was unemployed, the food prices were high, and he was harassed by public officials. When that occurred, he set himself on fire on December, 2010. This got the attention of many people in the Arab World. "The people want to bring down the regime," as stated in the article (Occupy Wall…

Failure to protect the public from the economic instability, unable to provide opportunities for the people, and overall general disproval of the leadership might cause social unrest and their loss in the belief in the government’s right to rule. Tunisia is a prime example of a government that was – or seemed like – it was doing well politically, as well as socially, and the people believed in the government’s leadership. However, when the public noticed that the economy was becoming unstable,…

Social unrest began in Tunisia on December 17, 2010 and quickly spread across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, most notably in Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain, Syria, Libya and Morocco, forming what is known as the Arab Spring. Many of these demonstrations evolved into revolutions resulting in the overthrow of longstanding authoritarian governments. However, in other countries, social unrest peaked and then dwindled, either as a result of suppression by the government or softened by…

Introduction: It has become a theme within scholarly works and implicit in recent history, that the most effective means of waging political struggle involves the use of violence. Conflict research has been dominated by concerns over the use, management, and control of violent force within conflict. This focus on violence is neither the only, nor necessarily the most potent form of conflict. The advent of nonviolent civil resistance within the Middle East context has gone grossly unappreciated…

be in protecting France. He then draws attention to the naval ship and how there are flaw in the design only being able to hold two week of supply. However, all would not be lost if they have control of the following countries Saigon, Indochina, Tunisia and Madagascar because these places will provide a naval safe haven a provision for supply, shelter and port for defense. Not acting now could result in a costly mistake. Conclusion Ferry was an extreme imperial who aim was for colonial…

In “A Night in Tunisia” I could pick up on the “different rhythms sound[ing] simultaneously” and because of the combining of instruments with dissimilar timbers, I could recognize the different instrument groups. The textbook also states the jazz composers “expect interpreters of their works to include improvisation in each performance” (Ferris & Worster, 2014). When I saw Dizzy Gillespie’s name on the program I was expecting classic jazz, but “A Night in Tunisia” was played using a beat…