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The Arab Awakening - The Evolution of Revolutions
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The Arab Awakening - The Evolution of Revolutions

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Peaceful protests in Tunisia and Egypt topple two of the region's longest-ruling leaders, then the same wave of uprisings turns into war in Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Bahrain. Al Jazeera's Marwan Bishara leads a panel through what connects those outcomes and what pulled them apart. Rabab el-Mahdi, a political science professor at the American University in Cairo, and Newsweek's Christopher Dickey argue over whether these movements had enough organization to be called revolutions at all, while author Patrick Seale places them against earlier Arab independence struggles. Ahmed Maher, founder of Egypt's 6 April Youth Movement, and Nile TV's former deputy director Shaeera Amin speak from inside the protests themselves, describing organizing without unified leadership or a shared agenda. The debate keeps returning to one question: is this an awakening following Turkey's path, Iran's, or some distinct Arab route, and does the label survive contact with civil war. No footage tour, just the argument, run through people who were reporting on or organizing the uprisings as they happened.