Description
At the beginning of 2011, the Arab World witnessed a ‘Second Arab Awakening’ which came as a modern social and political earthquake. The wind of the “Jasmine Revolution” in Tunisia went viral, quickly propagated to Egypt, then spread to Libya and Yemen, transformed into a hurricane in Syria, and developed into a reform movement in Jordan. This ‘awakening’ was widely recognized among Western and Arab scholars, historians, analysts and experts.
This special bulletin aims to explore and explain the Second Arab Awakening, its historical background (reaching back to the early last century), its development, and its implications. To do so, the following questions are answered: The Awakening of Whom? The Awakening of What? The Awakening … Why?
