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Did the Arab Spring bring about change?

It has been a decade since the Arab Spring; a group of protests that sprung up around the Middle ...

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18.55 27 Jan 2021


Did the Arab Spring bring about change?


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18.55 27 Jan 2021


It has been a decade since the Arab Spring; a group of protests that sprung up around the Middle East, and it led to some regime changes in several countries.

But what has its real impact been?

Hussein Omar is a lecturer in Modern Global History in UCD, who was in Cairo ten years ago, and he joined Kieran on Wednesday's edition of The Hard Shoulder to discuss what happened, and the fallout since.


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