The Arab Revolution: Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising by Jean-Pierre Filiu, Reviewed by Ramazan Kilinc
Kilinc, R. (2012). The Arab Revolution: Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising, by Jean-Pierre Filiu, Insight Turkey, 14(4), pp. 198-99.
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Abstract
The Arab world has been making a new history since January 2011 when the uprisings against President Ben Ali resulted in his fleeing from Tunisia. Throughout 2011, the decades-old rule of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Moammar Qaddafi in Libya ended. Political change came to Yemen and the status quo has been strongly challenged in other Arab countries. Jean-Pierre Filiu, in his The Arab Revolution: Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising, takes stock of the revolutionary movements in the Arab world, briefly summarizes the events in key countries and comes up with ten lessons that we can learn from the uprisings.