The Peace on The Horizon - 75 Years after The World War 2 in the Middle East (177)

 

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Chapter 7: The "Arab Spring" - A fleeting dream ( 10)

 

177 Short spring festival (2/5)

However, it would be valuable to judge the contemporary meaning of Arab Spring. As mentioned before, there are three identities in the Arab World. They are ethnicity, religion and ideology.

 

In Egypt, protest on the street was organized by students. They demonstrated in Tahrir (Revolution) Square in Cairo in January 2011. It was exactly same timing with the "Jasmine Revolution" in Tunisia. Following on the agitation of young students who called to participate to demonstration by SNS, the demonstration had expanded its scale and filled the Tahrir Square. They shouted waving national flag and chanted the slogan; "Kefaya (We are bored)!" They asked for resignation of President Mubarak. Police officers on site showed sympathy to the demonstrators. Officers themselves were also "Kefaya" for the President.

 

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Areha Kazuya

(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)