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Arab communities are experiencing unforeseen and volatile changes resulting from the severe political, economic and social repression that has prevailed for the past decades. The first spark of revolution was in Tunisia soon extended to Egypt, then Yemen, Libya, and recently Syria. Waves of social-­‐political protests have also burst in Iraq, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Bahrain and other states. The demands most apparent in all these cases are dignity and democracy in all its forms: political, economic and social. Of all these movements, protests and revolutions, the peaceful revolutions (despite casualties) in Egypt and Tunisia succeeded in overthrowing the heads of their regimes and are working actively on a process of democratic transition.

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