Has the Arab Spring returned to Tunisia?
Lesson Brief
EuroNews
On January 23, EuroNews reported that Tunisian authorities imposed a nationwide curfew in response to massive social protests across the country against unemployment and difficult economic conditions. Tunisia's Prime Minister Habib Essid held an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the protests and expressed his understanding to those struggling in the country. The protests, which are occurring nearly five years after the revolution that toppled the country's previous ruler, were sparked by the death of a young unemployed man who was killed after being electrocuted while climbing a power pole during a demonstration against unemployment.
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مدينة ، مدن | City, cities | قَلَّصَ ، يُقَلِّص / تقليص | To reduce / reducing |
ضد | against | فارق ، فوارق | Disparity, disparities |
اقتصادي | economic | التفاوت , تفاوتات | Inequality, inequalities |
وضع ، أوضاع | Situation(s), condition(s) | حتى وإن | even if |
عدالة | justice | قادرة على | able to (f) |
شاب | A young man | بينما | While |
سَجَّلَ، يُسَجِّل / تسجيل | To record / recording | ملائم | Appropriate |
مبررا أن | Justifying that | تمويل | Funding |
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- social justice
- العدالة الاجتماعية
- curfew
- حظر التجول
- merit, worth
- استحقاق
- opposition
- معارضة
- finding appropriate funding
- إيجاد التمويل الملائم
- to gather
- ُتَجَمَّعَ ، يَتَجَمَّع
- to allocate
- ليخصص
- social inequality
- التفاوت الاجتماعي
- to impose / it imposed
- ْفَرَضَ ، يَفْرِضُ / فَرَضَت
- to adopt / adoption
- تَبَنَّى ، يَتَبَنَّى / التبنّي