Mohammed Bouazizi

The 9/11 Wars

by Jason Burke  · 1 Sep 2011  · 885pp  · 271,563 words

military operation was launched against an Arab, Muslim-majority state. In Tunisia, it had been the spectacular and public suicide of fruit and vegetable seller Mohammed Bouazizi – in which no one else was hurt – that had set off the uprising that overturned the regime of ben Ali. It was almost impossible to

Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet

by Linda Herrera  · 14 Apr 2014  · 186pp  · 49,595 words

on fire. He died on January 4, 2011, from wounds resulting from his self-immolation. Just a few hours before dousing himself in inflammable liquid, Mohammed Bouazizi supposedly wrote a suicide note that his cousin posted on his Facebook wall. The note, addressed to his mother, read: I’m traveling mom, forgive

Revolution 2:0: A Memoir and Call to Action

by Wael Ghonim  · 15 Jan 2012  · 367pp  · 109,122 words

done enough this year to deserve a special celebration . . . What do you think? 471 Likes 119 Comments * * * 5. A Preannounced Revolution ON DECEMBER 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, an unlicensed vegetable-cart operator in Sidi Bouzid, a town 190 miles south of Tunis, had his cart confiscated by a policewoman, and when he

Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century

by Christian Caryl  · 30 Oct 2012  · 780pp  · 168,782 words

-year-old street vendor in Tunisia, a high school graduate with an income of some $140 a month, changed the course of history. That day Mohammed Bouazizi went to a local government office in his hometown of Sidi Bouzid to register a protest against the police who had confiscated his vegetable cart

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-fruit-seller-mohammed-bouazizi. 10. “A Shi’ite Victory That Subverted Shi’ite Tradition,” Jeffrey Donovan, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, February 10, 2009. 11. For a more detailed

The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

by Martin Gurri  · 13 Nov 2018  · 379pp  · 99,340 words

the Fifth Wave of information was implicated in this outcome. The catalyst for the Tunisian uprising came in the form of a truly insignificant man: Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid, who set himself on fire in despair over humiliations he had endured at the hands

The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire

by Wikileaks  · 24 Aug 2015  · 708pp  · 176,708 words

the only ones inconvenienced by the turmoil. It had begun with a popular movement in Tunisia, precipitated by the self-immolation of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi on December 18, 2010. Bouazizi was protesting at the confiscation of his wares and the routine harassment he suffered at the hands of the authorities

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell  · 11 May 2015  · 409pp  · 105,551 words

can anticipate, because he lives in a vastly more complex world. The first Tarek is fictional. The second is Tunisian fruit vendor Tarek al-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi, and when he douses himself with gasoline and self-immolates, events spiral out of control at breakneck speed: A crowd protests his death, and his

Hunger: The Oldest Problem

by Martin Caparros  · 14 Jan 2020  · 684pp  · 212,486 words

—and I mean, spectacular—of this development was the Arab Spring, and unbelievably, such a monumental event was arguably and literally sparked by one man. Mohamed Bouazizi, was known to friends as Basbousa, an epithet that referenced a North African cake made from semolina and honey. But in fact, eating Basbousa cake

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx  · 18 Nov 2025  · 642pp  · 142,332 words

answer. 6 Techno-Optimism Evading Norms to Fight the Bad Guys and Make Billions On December 17, 2010, an impoverished fruit and vegetable vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi pushed his cart onto the streets of Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, when police confronted him over his lack of permits. They confiscated his cart and scales

Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions

by Paul Mason  · 30 Sep 2013  · 357pp  · 99,684 words

really been posed for twenty years: who should feel it?14 Now, that question had become concrete. On 17 December 2010, a street vendor called Mohamed Bouazizi walked into the traffic in the Tunisian backwater of Sidi Bouzid, carrying a can of gasoline, and set himself on fire: he had, he claimed

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by Philip N. Howard  · 27 Apr 2015  · 322pp  · 84,752 words

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by Daniel Yergin  · 14 May 2011  · 1,373pp  · 300,577 words

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by Robert M. Sapolsky  · 1 May 2017  · 1,261pp  · 294,715 words

Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media

by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking  · 15 Mar 2018

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

by Francis Fukuyama  · 29 Sep 2014  · 828pp  · 232,188 words

10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less

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by Ben Rhodes  · 4 Jun 2018  · 470pp  · 148,444 words

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Earth Wars: The Battle for Global Resources

by Geoff Hiscock  · 23 Apr 2012  · 363pp  · 101,082 words

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by Tom Burgis  · 7 Sep 2020  · 476pp  · 139,761 words

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by Srdja Popovic and Matthew Miller  · 3 Feb 2015  · 202pp  · 8,448 words

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The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World

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by Sarah Kendzior  · 24 Apr 2015  · 172pp  · 48,747 words

The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

by Edward Chancellor  · 15 Aug 2022  · 829pp  · 187,394 words

Undoing Border Imperialism

by Harsha Walia  · 12 Nov 2013  · 258pp  · 69,706 words

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

by Yuval Noah Harari  · 29 Aug 2018  · 389pp  · 119,487 words

The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth

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by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson  · 20 Mar 2012  · 547pp  · 172,226 words

Writing on the Wall: Social Media - the First 2,000 Years

by Tom Standage  · 14 Oct 2013  · 290pp  · 94,968 words

No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

by Richard Dobbs and James Manyika  · 12 May 2015  · 389pp  · 87,758 words

Leading From the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies

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The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

by Jacob Helberg  · 11 Oct 2021  · 521pp  · 118,183 words

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by Scott Patterson  · 5 Jun 2023  · 289pp  · 95,046 words

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by Andro Linklater  · 12 Nov 2013  · 603pp  · 182,826 words

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Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier  · 29 Mar 2017

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by Writers For The 99%  · 17 Dec 2011  · 173pp  · 54,729 words

The End of Secrecy: The Rise and Fall of WikiLeaks

by The "Guardian", David Leigh and Luke Harding  · 1 Feb 2011  · 322pp  · 99,066 words

This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers

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The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

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The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society

by Binyamin Appelbaum  · 4 Sep 2019  · 614pp  · 174,226 words

The Twittering Machine

by Richard Seymour  · 20 Aug 2019  · 297pp  · 83,651 words