A look into how social media played a part in Arab Spring.

1. Arab Spring
Mia Bernier - Mark Abdelmessih

2. What is Arab Spring?
Here are the faces of men that did not care about their people.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
(Tunisia)
Hosni Mubarak
(Egypt)
Muammar Gaddafi
(Libya)
Bashar Al-Assad
(Syria)
Ali Saleh
(Yemen)

3. Tunisia

4. Tunisia
A street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire after being humiliated by municipal
officers. President of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, visited Bouazizi days later.

5. Mohamed Bouazizi Sidi Bouzid
Tunisia
A Google Trends report shows a spike in Mohamed Bouazizi and Sidi Bouzid searches around the
time of Bouazizi’s self-immolation. As soon as the act happened, citizens rushed the streets,
protesting their government.
Google Trends

6. Tunisia
Tweets broadcasted updates on what was happening in Tunisia, when local news stations did not.
President Ben Ali fled the country and the Tunisian Revolution was seen as a success.

7. Tunisia
Civilians used YouTube to upload graphic videos of what was happening on the streets of Tunisia
to help shine light on it.

8. Tunisia
A year later, Mohamed Bouazizi’s life was still celebrated. He became a symbol of hope. These
posters are hung at the location of his self-immolation.

9. Egypt

10. Egypt
A similar incident happened with Khaled Said, a 28-year-old who was in a cyber café when he
was dragged outside and beaten to death by police officers.

11. Egypt
A caricature was created showing Khaled Said, representing the Egyptian Revolution,
arresting President Mubarak.

12. This is the Facebook event that called for people to protest on January 25th.
Title translation: “The Day of Revolution Against Torture, Poverty, Corruption and Unemployment.”
Egypt

13. Internet Shut Down
Egypt
This graphical representation of the hashtag #jan25 illustrates the effect of the internet shut
down by Egypt’s government.
Google Trends

14. Egypt
A great deal of people took to Twitter to react to the internet shut down.

15. Egypt
This tweet explains how Egyptians used different social media platforms to spark a revolution.

16. In 2011, one of our presenters, Mark, participated in one of the protests in Egypt.
Egypt

17. Any Questions?
Thank you

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