Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

Mubarak 's securify regime; extreme inequalities of wealth...; and...the loss of human dignity” (Fahmy 350). Thus, after the Tunisian uprising, the Egyptian citizens were left feeling very inspired to rebel against their oppressive authoritarian regime as well.“The Tunisian uprising demonstrated to the disaffected in Egypt and elsewhere that broad-based movements, such as the one that brought down the Tunisian government, were viable” (Gelvin 50). Therefore, the Egyptians were influenced by the success of the Tunisian uprisings and ultimately hoped that they would experience similar results. Tunisia and Egypt have many similarities. During the uprisings, they both practiced peaceful protests. Also, “Tunisia forced former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country, while Egypt ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, referred him to trial and imprisoned him.”(Barhouma), Furthermore, although Tunisia did start the uprisings in the Middle East, they both initially started their revolutions for the same reasons, that being political unrest amongst the citizens because their country was being ran unfairly. When it comes to similarities on the outcomes after the Arab Spring, both Tunisia and Egypt were initially successful in changing the regime in their countries; although now Egypt fell back to an authoritarian rule. Although Tunisia and Egypt experienced some similarities initially, they had entirely different outcomes after the Arab Spring uprisings. On one hand,…

Spring. As background, the state of Tunisia had been ruled since 1986 by a dictatorial president by the name of Zine El Abidine El Ben Ali, otherwise known as Ben Ali. His government, although not as oppressive as some in the Middle East and North Africa, still had a distinct elitist group which was separated from the common citizenry. In fact, Ben Ali was known for suppressing Islamic fundamentalism and established the rights for women which was unmatched by any other Arab nation. However,…

Chapter Four: Persuasive and Ideological Features of Bin Ali and Mubarak Speeches during the Anti-Residency Protests 4.0. The data The analyzed data in this chapter consist of some extracts from the last three speeches of Tunisian president Ben Ali and Egyptian president Mubarak delivered during the anti-residency protests and before they were forced of their office out (2010-2011). The analysis of this chapter is of two levels, first is the persuasive level based on Wardy (1996), Aristotle’s…

there are still a number of verses in the women's rights are well-reported which emphasizes that the equality between gender is not something inconsistent with Islam religion itself. Case study one: Tunisia Background Information of Islam in Tunisia In 1956, Tunisia was decolonized by French colonial, and Habib Bourguiba was led Tunisia for three decades, which offers secular ideas, including women's emancipation and the abolition of polygamy and free compulsory education. In just a few months…

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unstructured after the revolution cannot be ignored. This relates to the fact that due to the policy decisions taken in 2000s it has damaged Egypt, in terms of low and unstable economy which creates a problem as the GDP is not growing. According to Dahi Egypt has failed as a state, as it only focused on liberalisation, their primary goals were foreign investments. Secondly, the global war on terror has enabled them getting more resources. However the rise and fall of social contrast, it is…

freedoms. American Foreign aid is used to support corrupt regimes. These regimes go against the democratic principles that they are supposed to represent and violate many human rights (Eddlem). Taxpayers dollars are meant to be given to governments that are considered a strategic ally and they are supposed to fight terrorist organizations. Instead, the money is used to fight against their own people they detain, harass, and torture people that don’t have the same ideology as the leader. The…

uncompetitive democratic processes, and inflexible regimes, among others. Additionally, these power sharing agreements must confront multiple credibility problems. Not only must the actors convince one another that the agreement will hold up in the future, but a third actor is needed to guarantee the terms of the negotiated settlement. This displaces responsibility onto a third party, complicating the arrangement more than an alternative solution such as physical partitioning would. The NATO…