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Trajectories of Arab Spring: The politics of Persecution in Benyamin’s Twin novels Al Arabian Novel Factory and Jasmine days. Jishnu Prasad Abstract This paper attempts to find the ways in which the authoritarian regimes oppress its citizens. In the backdrop of Arab spring these novels portrays the rise and fall of a popular uprising in an unnamed Arab country. The paper also analyzes how manipulative is the regime when it comes to safeguard its power structure and how religion, gender and other sectarian divisions play a major role in oppressing the citizens.
Keywords: Trajectory, Politics, Oppression, Religion, Gender, Regime
The term Arab (Arabic) for the most part alludes to those persons who communicate in Arabic as their native tongue. There are 22 nations holding membership in the Arab League and to be more than 300 million individuals living in the Arab world. The Arab World and the Middle East is constantly utilized as in a stirred up structure and is befuddling. The Middle East is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey and Egypt. The idea of the Middle East as a geographical entity was put forward by the British in the colonial era. It additionally incorporates the Non- Arab nations, for example, Israel, Iran and Turkey. Their essential dialects are Hebrew, Farsi and Turkish respectively. Most of the nations in Middle East and North Africa were the colonies of Britain and France. They got freedom after World War II. In those days people demanded freedom from foreign rulers and now the citizens in these countries are protesting against their rulers. Arabs are also the largest ethnic group in the world. Three significant world religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam found its origin within the Middle East region. World‘s antiquated human advancements like Egyptian civilization and Mesopotamian also flourished in this region. Arab Spring The Arab Spring was a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests, riots and civil wars in the Arab world that started in 2010 in Tunisia with the Jasmine Revolution. Tunisian revolution got its name from the national flower of the country. The triggering force of the
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