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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 200. Chapters: Arab Spring, List of current constituent monarchs, Poland, Fascism, 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, Illegal immigration to the United States, Transcendental Meditation movement, War crimes of the Wehrmacht, Kelly Clarkson, Social science, State religion, Yahoo!, Under My Skin (Avril Lavigne album), Brand New Eyes, Indian road network, The Muppet Show, List of former zoos and aquariums, Human-computer interaction, February 1913, Rwandan Civil War, As Long as You Love Me (Justin Bieber song), Alex Morgan, 2012-2013 ISU Junior Grand Prix, The Client List (TV series), Adventist Development and Relief Agency, Cleveland Point Light, MNCTV, Jose Luis Rivera Guerra, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Arkells, Great Sandy Desert, List of awards and honors received by Imran Khan, Michel Ory, Hybrid genome assembly, Sophomore, The Geneva School, Angora goat, Kaas plateau, George Vitale. Excerpt: The Arab Spring (Arabic:, ) is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations, protests, and wars occurring in the Arab world that began on 18 December 2010. To date, rulers have been forced from power in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen; civil uprisings have erupted in Bahrain and Syria; major protests have broken out in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Sudan; and minor protests have occurred in Lebanon, Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, and Western Sahara. The major oil rich nations (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman) have been able to keep their ruling families in power. There were border clashes in Israel in May 2011, and the protests in Iranian Khuzestan by the Arab minority erupted in 2011 as well. Weapons and Tuareg fighters returning from the Libyan civil war stoked a simmering rebellion in Mali, and the consequent Malian coup d'etat has been described as "fallout" from the Arab Spring in North Africa. The sectarian clashes in Lebanon were described as a spillover violence of the Syrian uprising and hence the regional Arab Spring. In September 2012 a wave of social protests by Palestinians demanded lower consumer prices and resignation of the Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad. The protests have shared techniques of mostly civil resistance in sustained campaigns involving strikes, demonstrations, marches, and rallies, as well as the effective use of social media to organize, communicate, and raise awareness in the face of state attempts at repression and Internet censorship. Many Arab Spring demonstrations have met violent responses from authorities, as well as from pro-government militias and counter-demonstrators. These attacks have been answered with violence from protestors in some cases. A major slogan of the demonstrators in the Arab world has been ("the people want to bring down the regime"). Some observers have drawn comparisons between the Arab Spring movements and the pro-democratic, anti-Communist Revolutions of 1989 (also know
