Response to Berchmans, 2 November 2012 10:00AM
I think it's fair to say that the Tunisian revolution had little and less to do with the rest of the protests across the MENA area.
Given that Tunisia already had a fairly strong tradition of equal rights for women and minorities and was generally the most progressive Arab state (as opposed to, say, Egypt where >90% of the population are religious conservatives, and minorities were being thoroughly persecuted even under Mubarak) I can't see why the uprisings in Libya, Egypt and Syria should be grouped with events in Tunisia, as they have almost nothing in common - one being a movement for liberalism, the others movements for a different sort of authoritarianism.
The term "Arab Spring" is a bit of an absurdity, an umbrella term which does not accurately reflect the reality on the ground, which is a patchwork of distinct uprisings which don't have a great deal in common with one another.
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