Starting in 2011 Egypt has erupted in revolution. Like the French in the book who were inspired by Americans, the Egyptians were inspired to revolt by neighboring Tunisians. They Egyptians were protesting poverty, unemployment, and government corruption. They, like the French wanted to be rid of their leader, President Hosni Mubarak. In retaliation to the protesting, the government blocked all social media including email and texting. Like in France, the mobs centralized around a leader, Mohamed El Baradei. Though the military now had much power in Egypt, the direction that the government would go was unsure. Likewise, it took the French a long time before they secured a permanent government.
Unlike the French revolution, many countries were affected by Egypt's political unrest. Egypt is a major supplier of oil and due to uncertainty of trade, oil price increased. During the French revolution, the Mannette's and Darney are living peacefully in neighboring France, almost ignorant to the treacheries occuring in France.
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ReplyDeleteThe successful revolution in Tunisia lead they Egyptians to begin one of their own. On January 25, 2011 protest started speaking for poverty, unemployment, government corruption and autocratic governance of President Hosni Mubarak (Huffington Post). Thousands of people protested for these reasons. For 30 year Mubarak ruled over Egypt and finally in February 2012 he stepped down and left Cairo (Huffington Post). Egypt’s revolution ended with the first election ever in their entire history. This revolution is very similar to France’s revolution for several reasons. The first being that the Egyptians were inspired by the Tunisian revolution and the French were inspired by the American Revolution. The second is that the people in France and Egypt were fighting against an aristocratic government. Both Mubarak and Louis XVI were monarchies that where put into power because of their family line to the thrown. The government system and the king and president that were in power both were corrupt and made poor decisions on the countries part costing the people to become angry and revolted. Another reason France and Egypt revolted was because of poverty. France had over 97% of its population in poverty and was in famine. Egypt had a large part of their country out of work and in poverty. This is another similarity between the two revolutions.
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ReplyDeleteAfter the disbandment of the Soviet Union, Muammar Gaddafi and Libya's power went into decline. After 10 years of economic "stagnation", Gaddafi started a program of reattachment to the west, and ended the Libyan Nuclear Weapons Program in 2003. After watching both the uprisings against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the revolution in Tunisia, the people of Libya were motivated to overthrow their oppressive ruler Muammar Gaddafi. Libya has a large youth population and few economic opportunity, like many other Arab countries in its region. What started as small demostrations Benghazi, the revolution took into full swing after violence ensued while the police were trying to stop them. Gaddafi's army started to defect and join the oppression, giving them weapons and joining their forces. Therefore, Gaddafi had to hire 5000 mercenaries in order to help squash the revolution and put an end to the opposition the same way he did before, through violence. His loyalists army concentrated in the nation's capitol of Tripoli, while the opposition were concentrated in the east. The eight month civil war basically ended when the opposition captured Tripoli and killed both Gaddafi and his son.The revolution in Libya is similar to the French Revolution, in the aspect of chaos and the opposition lacking structure or organization of any kind. ALso, they were inspired by the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, while the French were inspired by the American Revolution. Also, both countries were in a time of economic downturn. The most significant similarity is the public display of the killings of leaders of the country. The French revolutionaries publicly killed Louis XVI using the guillotine. The Libyan opposition, upon capturing Gaddafi and his son, beat them and put pictures a video of his grisly death on the internet, showing their victory to the world on October 20, 2011.
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-libyan-revolution-a-brief-summary/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/20/us-libya-idUSTRE79F1FK20111020