¡Viva La Revolución!

NAME THAT LEADER!

WHICH COUNTRY?

Omar Hassan Al-Bashir

THE JASMINE REVOLUTION

Tunisian Politics 0.001Colony of France mid-1800s

Given independence on the 20th of March in 1956

Habib Bourguiba became the first prime minister

1987- Zine El Abidine Ben Ali assumed the presidency in a bloodless coup d'état

What started THIS clash?

Mohamed Bouazizi

Nicknamed: Basbousa

Mr. Basbousa

The Burning Man

Why is everybody so pissed off?Political opposition

suppressedFreedom of the press Interference with the

work of local human rights organizations

PovertyUnemployment Corruption (State &

Police)

WHO WANTS IN?

NameDate of

self-immolation Date ofDeath Residence Country

1 Mohsen Bouterfif 13 January 2011

16 January 2011 Boukhadra TUNISIA

2 Aouichia Mohammad 15 January 2011 — Bordj Menaïel TUNISIA

3 Boubacar Boyden 15 January 2011 — Jijel TUNISIA

4 Mamier Lotfi 16 January 2011 — El Oued TUNISIA

5 Senouci Touat 16 January 2011 — Mostaganem Tunisia

6 Yacoub Ould Dahoud 17 January 2011

22 January 2011 Tidjikja Mauritania

7 Abdou Abdel-Moneim Jaafar 17 January 2011 — El-Qanater EGYPT

8 Mohammed Farouk Hassan 18 January 2011 — Cairo EGYPT

9 Ahmed Hashim al-Sayyed 18 January 2011

18 January 2011 Alexandria EGYPT

10 Mohammed Ashour Sorour 18 January 2011 — Cairo EGYPT

11 Faiz Aly 21 January 2011

21 January 2011 Samtah SAUDIA

ARABIA

12 Hasan Ali Akleh 26 January 2011

26 January 2011 Al-Hasakah SYRIA

13 Daniel Remeriez 28 January 2011

29 January 2011 Medjanafat ALGERIA

"—" denotes that the individual survived.

NAME THAT LEADER!

WHICH COUNTRY?

Hosni Mubarak

Egyptian Politics 0.00001Hosni MubarakBorn 4th of May, 19284th President of the Arab Republic of EgyptAppointed Vice President in 1975Assumed the presidency on 14 October 1981,

following the assassination of President Anwar el-Sadat.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?Overthrow of the Egyptian president would be the

“loss” of the USA’s greatest Arab ally in the M/E Overthrow would allow populous which

50%live off of less than $2 a day to take back theircountry

El Shaheed was able to capture the attention of the gov’t

The keystroke revolution

AWESOME BOOK TO CHECK OUTMemoirs from the Women's Prison

(Literature of the Middle East)ISBN: 978-0520088887

NAME THAT LEADER!

WHICH COUNTRY?

Muammar Al-

Qaddafi

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recuperating-doctors-say/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/tarak-ben-ammar-financing-story-of-tunisian-

martyr-mohamed-bouazizi/ http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/30/el-shaheed-the-mysterious-anonymous-

behind-egypt-s-revolt.html http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/09/15/the_devil_wears_taupe?page=0,1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/efferlecebe/5377812257/sizes/z/in/photostream/ http://marvinxoneducation.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/home_of_chaos/5366205531/ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Unplug-mubarak.gif/

220px-Unplug-mubarak.gif http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/01/31/tunisia-too-the-ymca-factor/ A bunch of BBC & Al-Jazeera articles I have read but no longer remember where

they are