The Fires of Spring: A Post-Arab Spring Journey Through the Turbulent New Middle East - Turkey, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, and Tunisia

by Shelly Culbertson

Turkey, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, and Tunisia

The "Arab Spring" all started when a young Tunisian fruit seller set himself on fire in protest of a government official confiscating his apples and slapping his face. The aftermath of that one personal protest grew to become the Middle East movement known as the Arab Spring--a wave of disparate events that included protests, revolutions, hopeful reform movements, and bloody civil wars.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250067049
• ISBN13: 9781250067043
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"