23 Pictures That Capture Just How Huge The Arab Spring Really Was
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Five years later, the images of revolution.
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His immolation, and subsequent death, is what is often marked as the flashpoint that set off the protests that would become the Arab Spring. By Jan. 14, 2011, Ben Ali had fled Tunisia in the face of massive protests.
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