Download or read book GCC and Arab Spring written by Khalid A. Al-Sayed and published by The Peninsula Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-21 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2011 will forever be etched in the annals of Middle Eastern history as the year of revolutions. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen have seen their seemingly impenetrable autocratic regimes fall one by one while the scene in Syria is still dominated by an atmosphere of violence and bloodshed and repression. The Arab Spring uprising that has been spreading across the Middle East has greatly surprised not only the strong-man rulers but also academics and policymakers who had been caught off guard with the immediate and rapid turn of events. Nobody had foreseen how the self-immolation of an ordinary man from a small town in Tunisia could have started the raging conflagration that has now spread like wildfire in the entire region.