The Arab Spring, ten years later: is it time for a final assessment?

Tunisians and Egyptians living in Tunis wave the flags of both countries to celebrate the resignation of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in front of the Egyptian Embassy in Tunis, February 11, 2011. Zoubeir Souissi / Reuters

By: Marie-France Chatin Follow

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Since the immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi on December 17, 2010 in Tunisia, the trajectories of the countries concerned by the said Arab Spring have been very contrasted.

Between a democratic transition for whatever reason in Tunisia and civil wars in Yemen, Libya and Syria through an authoritarian restoration in Egypt.

Without forgetting Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria, which remained behind the movement of 2011 but which experienced in 2019 a wave of "degagiste".

Ten years after the start of the Arab Spring, is it time for a final assessment? 

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Guests:

  • Agnès Levallois

    , Senior Research Fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research.

    Vice President of IREMMO.

    Institute for Research and Studies on the Mediterranean and the Middle East. 

  • Ziad Majed

    , Researcher and political scientist.

    Professor at the American University of Paris.

    Author and co-author of books and studies on reforms, democratic transitions in Lebanon, Syria and the Arab world.

  • Pierre Blanc

    , Professor of Geopolitics at Bordeaux Agro Sciences and Sciences Po Bordeaux.

    Researcher at LAM, Laboratoire les Afriques dans le monde, and Editor-in-Chief of

    Confluences Méditerranée

    .

    Revolutions and counterrevolutions in the Arab world

    , IREMMO-L'Harmattan co-edition. 

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  • Tunisia

  • Egypt

  • Syria

  • Libya

  • Yemen

  • Iraq

  • Lebanon

  • Algeria

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