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Mohamed Bouazizi

A compiliation of images from the Arab uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East

Looking back at a historic time in the Middle East and North Africa

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Dec. 17 is a historic day on the minds of many people in Tunisia, elsewhere in North Africa and the Middle East — and around the world. That’s because exactly 10 years ago, a single event in Tunisia triggered a series of revolutions across the region.

Tunisian protesters demonstrate beneath a poster of Mohamed Bouazizi near the prime minister's office in Tunis, Tunisia, Jan. 28, 2011.

Fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi’s protest inspired the Arab uprisings. A decade later, his sister still mourns.

Global Politics
A man holds a Sudanese flag as he chants slogans against the government's deadly crackdown on people protesting against subsidy cuts late last month, during a demonstration after Friday prayers in north Khartoum

How the death of a pharmacist in Sudan has fueled anti-government protests

Global Politics

Audio: rare interview with Wikileaks’ Julian Assange

Environment
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Mother of Mohamed Bouazizi Speaks About Son Who Sparked Revolution

Graphic Video of Tortured 13-year-old Galvanizes Syrian Protestors

The Tunisian revolt was inspired by Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old fruit vendor who set himself on fire after police officers confiscated his cart. In Egypt, the revolution was kindled by the beating death of Khaled Said, an ordinary Alexandrian. Now, Syrian protesters may have found a martyr to unite under: 13-year-old Syrian boy Hamzah Al-Khatib. […]

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Remembering Tunisia’s ‘martyr’

Conflict & Justice

A fruit vendor in Tunisia who set himself on fire in December started a revolution. Now Mohamed Bouazizi is remembered as a hero, but as Megan Williams reports, his relatives say they’re being shunned.

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The history and power of self-immolation

Conflict & Justice

To help us understand more about self-immolation and those who commit it, we are joined by Michael Biggs, a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Oxford, who has been studying this form of protest.