Arab Spring

American  

noun

1. a series of uprisings in Arab countries, beginning in Tunisia in December 2010, in which protesters challenged the existing authoritarian regimes.

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Etymology

Origin of Arab Spring

Patterned after Prague Spring

Example Sentences

During the early 2010s Arab Spring, elevated oil prices didn’t derail Malaysia’s growth, and banks maintained solid asset quality, he notes.

From The Wall Street Journal

Since 1980—through the Iran-Iraq war and its tanker battles in the Gulf, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the 1998 oil-price collapse, the 2003 Iraq war, the global financial crisis, the Arab Spring, and the Covid pandemic—Emirati gross domestic product has grown from roughly $40 billion to more than $500 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal

We also didn’t experience supply crises in the 2000s or during the Arab Spring.

From The Wall Street Journal

But when the Arab Spring broke out a few years later, Dubai benefited, as investors looked for a safe haven.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet, the oil price remains only around $100 a barrel, compared with an inflation-adjusted Brent crude price that hit $179 after the Iranian revolution in 1979, $155 when Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, $180 amid the Arab Spring of 2011 and $130 after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal