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  • Published: 28 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446483831
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 35

Summer of Unrest: Revolution Road

Reflections on the Arab Spring



SUMMER OF UNREST: Peter Beaumont takes on the 'Arab Spring' and asks whether it is really a regional revolution with shared goals.

Peter Beaumont has been on the ground in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya as the 'Arab Spring' has blossomed. He has witnessed the uprisings in all their messy reality. In this ebook he explains what is going on in the region and explodes the myths that the uprisings can be interpreted as an easily explainable revolution.

He draws linkages between the countries ruled over by authoritarian regimes that promise 'reform' which is actually impossible to deliver, the frustration and anger this has caused, and then how this fulminated and eventually exploded, triggering a domino effect across the region.

BRAIN SHOTS is the pre-eminent source for high quality, short-form digital non-fiction. The Summer of Unrest series brings together stellar writers to explore the issues surrounding the austerity measures in the UK, uprisings in the Middle East and the nature of the protest movements springing up all over the world.

  • Published: 28 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446483831
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 35

About the author

Peter Beaumont

Peter Beaumont is foreign affairs editor at the Observer. He has reported extensively from conflict zones including Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East, and has written widely on human rights issues and the impact of conflict on civilians. The winner of the George Orwell Prize for his reports from Iraq. He is the author of The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict.

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