The
National Post’s photo gallery sums up the events of the past year as it shows the
25 best Arab Spring photos. (English) Patrick Witty’s
photo essay on
Time’s LightBox pays tribute to the courageous protesters from different countries. (English)
Another Africa discusses the cultural side of the Arab Spring in a post about street art and graffiti with the title: “
No Fear, The Rabble Writing On The Walls”. (English)
In Celebration of the first anniversary of the Tunisian revolution and also the outbreak of revolutionary movements in the Middle East,
Al Tahrir TV channel aired a
short documentary about Bouazizi whose suicide is seen as the trigger of the Tunisian revolution. (Arabic)
The current situation in Libya is described in
Reuters’
Special Report: Libya - divided it stands. (English)
In a
New York Times blog, Robert Mackey wrote about a
Bahrain activist’s arrest that is also caught on video. And also on the topic of the
Price of Freedom and Democracy in Bahrain the
Woodrow Wilson International Center interviewed Bahrain activists. (English)
As for the events in Egypt, another wave of brutal clashes between the military and police forces and the demonstrators broke out about two weeks ago as the security forces tried to break up the sit-in in front of the cabinet. This is a
summary of the clashes in a
Zeit Online blog. (German)
As a reaction to the fact that many women have been subject to extensive brutality, a women’s march in which about 10.000 Egyptian women participated was organized. A
photo gallery of this march is available on
BBC (English) and
Spiegel published an
article about the event. (German) On Friday, 23rd December, there was a
rally in Tahrir Square denouncing violence against protesters as the
Guardian reported. (English)
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