The
Arab Spring (, ) was a
revolutionary wave of
demonstrations and
protests (both non-violent and violent),
riots, and
civil wars in the
Arab world that began on 18 December 2010 in
Tunisia with the
Tunisian Revolution, and spread throughout the countries of the
Arab League and its surroundings. While the wave of initial revolutions and protests faded by mid-2012, some started to refer to the succeeding and still ongoing large-scale discourse conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa as the
Arab Winter. The most radical discourse from Arab Spring into the still ongoing civil wars took place in Syria as early as the second half of 2011.