Jasmine Revolution

In Tunisia and the wider Arab world, the protests and change in government are called the Sidi Bouzid Revolt, derived from Sidi Bouzid, the city where the initial protests began.

In the Western media, these events have been dubbed the Jasmine Revolution^[30] after Tunisia's national flower and in keeping with the geopolitical nomenclature of "color revolutions".

{The Tunisian revolution has also been considered the first of a series of revolutions named the Arab Spring. The events began in December 2010 and led to the ousting of longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.}

The 2010-2011 Tunisian Revolution in which President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced out of the presidency by popular protests, called "the Jasmine Revolution" by many media organisations, and which was the impetus of the Arab Spring .

The Arab Spring

The Arab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي‎ ar-Rabī' al-ʻArabī) is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world that began on Saturday, 18 December 2010. To date revolutions have occurred in Tunisia^[2] and Egypt;^[3] a civil war in Libya,^[4] resulting in the fall of its government; civil uprisings in Bahrain,^[5] Syria,^[6] and Yemen;^[7] major protests in Algeria,^[8] Iraq,^[9] Jordan,^[10] Morocco,^[11] and Oman;^[12] and minor protests in Kuwait,^[13] Lebanon,^[14] Mauritania, Saudi Arabia,^[15] Sudan,^[16] and Western Sahara. The protests have shared techniques of civil resistance in sustained campaigns involving strikes, demonstrations, marches and rallies, as well as the use of social media to organize, communicate, and raise awareness in the face of state attempts at repression and Internet censorship.^[

     Arab Spring gave birth to the downfall of non-democratic governments already in countries like Egypt and Libya.