Arab Winter: Difference between revisions

The '''Arab Winter'''<ref name=telegraph>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/9753123/Middle-East-review-of-2012-the-Arab-Winter.html |title=Middle East review of 2012: the Arab Winter |work=The Telegraph |accessdate=July 19, 2014|date=2012-12-31 |last1=Spencer |first1=Richard }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=The Jerusalem Post |url=http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Analysis-Arab-Winter-is-coming-to-Baghdad-359348 |title=Analysis: Arab Winter is coming to Baghdad |work=The Telegraph |accessdate=October 8, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2014/April/Expert-Warns-of-Americas-Coming-Arab-Winter/ |title=Expert Warns of America's Coming 'Arab Winter' |publisher=CBN |accessdate=October 8, 2014|date=2014-09-08 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-arab-winter |title=The Arab Winter|journal=The New Yorker |accessdate=October 8, 2014|date=2011-12-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spu.edu/about-spu/news/articles/2014/may/arab-spring |title=Arab Spring or Arab Winter?|work=The New Yorker |accessdate=October 8, 2014}}</ref> is a term for the resurgence of [[authoritarianism]], [[absolute monarchies]] and [[Islamic extremism]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Yun Ru Phua |url=http://bpr.berkeley.edu/2015/03/30/after-every-winter-comes-spring-tunisias-democratic-flowering/ |title=After Every Winter Comes Spring: Tunisia's Democratic Flowering – Berkeley Political Review |publisher=Bpr.berkeley.edu |date=|accessdate=2017-02-11}}</ref> evolving in the aftermath of the [[Arab Spring]] protests in [[Arab World|Arab countries]].<ref>Ahmed H Adam and Ashley D Robinson. ''Will the Arab Winter spring again in Sudan?''. Al-Jazeera. 11 June 2016. [http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/arab-winter-spring-sudan-160531082228922.html] "The Arab Spring that swept across the Middle East and succeeded in overthrowing three dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya in 2011 was a pivotal point in the history of nations. Despite the subsequent descent into the "Arab Winter", the peaceful protests of young people were heroic..."</ref> The term "Arab Winter" refers to the events across [[Arab League]] countries in the Mid-East and North Africa, including the [[Syrian Civil War]],<ref name="Fear and Faith in Paradise">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__lUxmzAZ08C&pg=PA296 |title=Fear and Faith in Paradise|accessdate=October 23, 2014|isbn=978-1-4422-1479-8|last1=Karber|first1=Phil|date=2012-06-18}}</ref><ref name="Arab Winter">{{cite web|url=http://americamagazine.org/issue/culture/arab-winter |title=Arab Winter|work=America Staging|accessdate=October 23, 2014|date=2012-12-28}}</ref> the [[Iraqi insurgency (2011–14)|Iraqi insurgency]] and the [[Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)|following civil war]],<ref name="The Jerusalem Post">{{cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Analysis-Arab-Winter-is-coming-to-Baghdad-359348 |title=Analysis: Arab Winter is coming to Baghdad |work=The Jerusalem Post |accessdate=October 23, 2014}}</ref> the [[Egyptian Crisis (2011–14)|Egyptian Crisis]],<ref name="euronews" /> the [[Libyan Crisis (2011–present)|Libyan Crisis]] and the [[Yemeni Crisis (2011–present)|Crisis in Yemen]].<ref name="Yemen’s Arab winter" /> Events referred to as the Arab Winter include those in [[Egypt]] that led to the removal of [[Mohamed Morsi]] and the seizure of power by General [[Abdel Fattah el-Sisi]] in an anti-[[Muslim Brotherhood]] campaign.<ref name="euronews.com">{{Citation |title=Egypt & Tunisia's new Arab winter |newspaper=Euro news |date=February 8, 2013 |url=http://www.euronews.com/2013/02/08/egypt-and-tunisia-s-new-arab-winter/}}</ref>