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21 December 2020

World Review Podcast: The Arab Spring, A Decade On

The New Statesman's World Review podcast with Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Tamkin.

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A man speaks in a microphone as he stands atop a sculpture of Mohamed Bouazizi's cart (bearing text reading in Arabic: "I do not forgive") in the square named after him in the centre of the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia on December 17, 2020, during commemorations of the 10th anniversary of Bouazizi's self-immolation which triggered a wave of protests across the North African country culminating in the president's departure almost a month later. (Photo by Fethi Belaid / AFP) (Photo by FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images)

On this week’s episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington, DC are joined, from Tunis, by Layli Foroudi to discuss the decade that has passed since a Tunisian fruit seller sparked the protests and revolutions known as the Arab Spring. They also discuss the latest from Europe, the US and India.

Read more from Foroudi on the story of Mohamed Bouazizi here.

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