The Peace on The Horizon - 75 Years after The World War 2 in the Middle East (171)

 

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(Arabic Version)

 

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Chapter 7: The "Arab Spring" - A fleeting dream (4)

 

171 Enough already! The masses are tired of long-term dictatorship (4/4)

For young people born in the 1970s and 1980s, they were reigned by a dictator at the start of their life. They had the same dictator when they entered school, graduated university and even got married. Their society was wrapped up with stagnation. They unanimously shouted; “We are bored!”, which meant in Arabic “Kefaya!”

 

"Kefaya" spread in the early 2000s as a slogan of the movement to protest the Mubarak regime in Egypt. Through the SNS of Internet this word spread in many MENA countries and deeply affected young people. It was the "Arab Spring" in 2011 that the word turned into an actual revolutionary movement.

 

(To be continued ----)

 

 

Areha Kazuya

(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)