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¡ Viva La Revolución !

¡ Viva La Revolución !. NAME THAT LEADER!. WHICH COUNTRY?. Omar Hassan Al- Bashir. The Jasmine Revolution. Tunisian Politics 0.001. Colony of France mid-1800s Given independence on the 20 th of March in 1956 Habib Bourguiba became the first prime minister

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¡ Viva La Revolución !

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  1. ¡Viva La Revolución!

  2. NAME THAT LEADER!

  3. WHICH COUNTRY? Omar Hassan Al-Bashir

  4. The Jasmine Revolution

  5. Tunisian Politics 0.001 • Colony of France mid-1800s • Given independence on the 20th of March in 1956 • HabibBourguiba became the first prime minister • 1987- Zine El Abidine Ben Ali assumed the presidency in a bloodless coup d'état

  6. What started THIS clash? Mohamed Bouazizi Nicknamed: Basbousa

  7. Mr. Basbousa

  8. The Burning Man

  9. Why is everybody so pissed off? • Political opposition suppressed • Freedom of the press • Interference with the work of local human rights organizations • Poverty • Unemployment • Corruption (State & Police)

  10. WHO WANTS IN?

  11. NAME THAT LEADER!

  12. WHICH COUNTRY? Hosni Mubarak

  13. Egyptian Politics 0.00001 Hosni Mubarak • Born 4th of May, 1928 • 4th President of the Arab Republic of Egypt • Appointed Vice President in 1975 • Assumed the presidency on 14 October 1981, following the assassination of President Anwar el-Sadat.

  14. What does this mean? • Overthrow of the Egyptian president would be the “loss” of the USA’s greatest Arab ally in the M/E • Overthrow would allow populous which 50%live off of less than $2 a day to take back theircountry • El Shaheed was able to capture the attention of the gov’t • The keystroke revolution

  15. AWESOME BOOK TO CHECK OUT • Memoirs from the Women's Prison (Literature of the Middle East) • ISBN: 978-0520088887

  16. NAME THAT LEADER!

  17. WHICH COUNTRY? Muammar Al-Qaddafi

  18. SOURCES • http://img4.allvoices.com/thumbs/event/900/570/69992434-mohamed-bouazizi.jpg • http://www.habibtoumi.com/2010/12/31/man-at-the-centre-of-tunisia-unrest-recuperating-doctors-say/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi • http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/tarak-ben-ammar-financing-story-of-tunisian-martyr-mohamed-bouazizi/ • http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/30/el-shaheed-the-mysterious-anonymous-behind-egypt-s-revolt.html • http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/09/15/the_devil_wears_taupe?page=0,1 • http://www.flickr.com/photos/efferlecebe/5377812257/sizes/z/in/photostream/ • http://marvinxoneducation.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html • http://www.flickr.com/photos/home_of_chaos/5366205531/ • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Unplug-mubarak.gif/220px-Unplug-mubarak.gif • http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/01/31/tunisia-too-the-ymca-factor/ • A bunch of BBC & Al-Jazeera articles I have read but no longer remember where they are

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