Proper noun
Arab Spring
The pro-democracy movement spreading across North Africa and the Middle East from 2010 to 2012.
Coordinate term: Arab Winter
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform. Ismail Haniyeh
But the current convulsions arising out of the Arab Spring remind us that a just and lasting peace cannot be measured only by agreements between nations. It must also be measured by our ability to resolve conflict and promote justice within nations. Barack Obama
The Arab Spring did a great deal for women because the person who spread the word in the first place was a woman. Women participated in it; they were fully out there in the street. Gloria Steinem
The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains of imperial influence. Hisham Matar
I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth. Jane Fonda
The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it. Kofi Annan