Center for Strategic Communication

Supporting Material and Further Reading

Algeria

“Algeria and the Arab Spring: A View from the Forest,”al-Jadaliyya,  http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/2653/algeria-and-the-arab-spring_a-view-from-the-forest

Libya

“Zenga Zenga Song,” http://www.youtube.com/user/ZengaZengaSong

Tahman Bradley, “Libyan Americans Grateful for International Community’s Involvement in Libya,” ABC News, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/03/libyan-americans-grateful-for-international-communitys-involvement-in-libya

Chris Adams, “Libyan rebel leader spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia,” McClatchy Newspapers,  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/03/26/111109/new-rebel-leader-spent-much-of.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz1cPfenK7f

 Syria

 “Hamza Ali al-Khateeb Becomes a Symbol of Syrian Brutality,” NYTimes.com, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/world/middleeast/31syria.html

“Syria: Protest over the killing of 13 year old Hamza al Khateeb,” Ya Libnan, http://www.yalibnan.com/2011/05/28/syria-protest-over-the-killing-of-13-year-old-hamza-al-khateeb/

Max Fisher, “Vogue Defends Profile of Syrian First Lady,” The Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/vogue-defends-profile-of-syrian-first-lady/71764/

“Mutilation of teenager terrorises Syrian women,” The Observers, France24, http://observers.france24.com/content/20110926-syria-mutilation-teenager-terrorizes-syrian-women-homs-zainab-al-hosni-funeral-brother-video

Theo Padnos, “The Cult: The Twisted, Terrifying Last Days Of Assad’s Syria,” The New Republic, http://www.tnr.com/article/world/95722/syria-damascus-bashar-basil-al-assad-sunni-alawi

“We are all Hamza Alkhateeb,” English language Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/hamza.alshaheeed

Hugh Macleod and Annasofie Flamand, “Tortured and killed: Hamza al-Khateeb, age 13,”  Al-Jazeera English, http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/05/201153185927813389.html

Uri Friedman, “On Syrian State TV Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb Is No 'Child Martyr’,” The Atlantic Wire, http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/05/syrian-tv-issues-its-account-hamza-al-khateebs-death/38333/

 

Tunisia

 “Man dies as Tunisian police open fire in clashes,” Reuters, http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE6BN2K920101224

Adam Lankford, “Suicide for a Cause,” Foreign Policy, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/19/suicide_for_a_cause

“Suicide that sparked a revolution,” Al-Jazeera English, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47d6fyaOjRM

Ellen Knickmeyer, “The Arab World's Youth Army,” Foreign Policy, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/27/the_arab_world_s_youth_army

Yasmine Ryan, “The tragic life of a street vendor,” Al Jazeera English, http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/01/201111684242518839.html

Robert Mackey, "Video That Set Off Tunisia's Uprising – NYTimes.com," New York Times, http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/video-that-triggered-tunisias-uprising/

Ryan Rifai, "Timeline: Tunisia's uprising – Tunisia," Al-Jazeera English,  http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/spotlight/tunisia/2011/01/201114142223827361.html

Eric Goldstein, "A Middle-Class Revolution" Foreign Policy,  http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/18/a_middle_class_revolution?page=0,0

The Other Revolutions

 Saudi Arabia

Fahad Faruqui, “Women react after Saudi King gives them the right to vote,” The Washington Post. 29 Mar. 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/women-react-after-saudi-king-gives-them-the-right-to-vote/2011/09/27/gIQAUS4l1K_blog.html

Rima al-Mukhtar, “Saudi woman sentenced to lashes for driving,” http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article507789.ece

Associated Press, "Saudi women granted right to vote in 2015 local elections," http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110925/saudi-king-women-right-to-vote-110925/20110925/?hub=TorontoNewHome

Yemen

“Our revolution's doing what Saleh can't – uniting Yemen,” Times Online, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/08/revolution-saleh-yemen-peace-historic