After protests were renewed by thousands of people on the streets in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa to again pressure the currently absent President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been in office for just over 32 years, negotiations were personally authorized by Saleh who is currently recovering from wounds sustained from an explosion at the presidential palace in Riyadh,...

Why is the Tunisian revolution, the source of inspiration for the Arab World Revolution and a symbol for the entire world, called the Jasmine Revolution? The Jasmine Revolution is the term used to refer to the demonstrations in Tunisia. The cause of the demonstrations is still being analyzed. Some media report they were triggered by decades of oppression, unemployment,...

A Brief Summary… Coined originally by Tunisian journalist Zied el Hani as another name for the Tunisian revolution that ousted the government, the ’Jasmine Revolution’ is now a term for other anti-government movements aided by the Internet many are endangering their own lives for that have sprung up in other countries (typically authoritarian or...