Why the Arab Spring Failed Everywhere But Tunisia | One Country Actually Won | Middle East

20th Century & Modern · Ep.24 | A single fruit seller in a town nobody could find on a map toppled a dictator in twenty-eight days — and then the revolutions that followed went badly wrong in almost every country except one.
The Arab Spring was sold to the world as a Facebook revolution. The real story is far stranger: it was the boring institutions, not the smartphones, that decided who won.

In This Episode:
- Why the most-connected, most-televised uprising in the region produced a military dictatorship, while the smallest and poorest country got the only real democratic transition
- The forgotten 2008 revolt in Tunisia's mining basin and the leaked American cables that lit the fuse — and why the "policewoman's slap" story you've heard a hundred times is only half the record
- Why oil money, sectarian fault lines, and the question of whether an army will fire on its own people still shape the Middle East today

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