Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Extinguishing the flames of the Arab Spring
In December in 2010, a young street vendor set himself on fire in Sidi
Bouzid, Tunisia to protest against police corruption. This one incident
triggered the widespread uprisings in Arab nations in the following year,
called Arab Spring. As a result, the incumbent regime was overthrown and new constitution
was passed in 2014 in Tunisia.
Have the lives of people improved or changed since then? What people
need the most and first is food. To bring food home, people need a job to earn
money. Have the new democratically established government created more jobs?
People who marched on the streets might have hoped that their protest
and the change would solve their problems and make their lives better. But neither
the elections nor the constitution seems to have changed the situations much, at
least for the young in this small town.
Enjoy reading and thinking what could democracy brings about.
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