Arab Spring
noun
: a series of anti-government uprisings affecting Arab countries of North Africa and the Middle East beginning in 2010
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Arriving in 2014 – after earning the wrath of the Egyptian government for covering the Arab Spring as a freelance journalist – one of Greater Cincinnati’s newest immigration detainees has lived in Oregon, Chicago and Cincinnati.
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Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 11 July 2025
The first is that this loose coalition focused on other, ultimately less destabilizing issues, including counterterrorism, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Arab Spring, and Israeli-Palestinian relations.
—James Jeffrey, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2025
These dramatic changes in public opinion have not been accompanied by upheavals of the kind the region witnessed, for example, during the Arab Spring revolts of 2010–11.
—Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2025
The Arab Spring should dispel the delusional gospel that the United States should be in the business of saving the world for democracy.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2025
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Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 11 July 2025
The first is that this loose coalition focused on other, ultimately less destabilizing issues, including counterterrorism, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Arab Spring, and Israeli-Palestinian relations.
—James Jeffrey, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2025
These dramatic changes in public opinion have not been accompanied by upheavals of the kind the region witnessed, for example, during the Arab Spring revolts of 2010–11.
—Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2025
The Arab Spring should dispel the delusional gospel that the United States should be in the business of saving the world for democracy.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Arab Spring.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Arab%20Spring. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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