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Opinion – The Arab Uprisings Ten Years On

The Arab Spring makes a connection to the 1848 Spring of Nations in Europe, which were popular uprisings against old monarchical rulings. This continues an orientalist tradition of likening the East to a so-called more advanced West.
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