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Beard Burn (Homage to Mohamed Bouazizi), 2011
HDV, 0:55 mins
Mohamed Bouazizi was a 26-year-old Tunisian whose self-immolation in front of a local government building became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution. Bouazizi's act of protest was also the first in a wave of eight self-immolations in the Arab world that inspired and emboldened activists in the region, sparking revolutionary protests in several other Arab countries.
HDV, 0:55 mins
Mohamed Bouazizi was a 26-year-old Tunisian whose self-immolation in front of a local government building became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution. Bouazizi's act of protest was also the first in a wave of eight self-immolations in the Arab world that inspired and emboldened activists in the region, sparking revolutionary protests in several other Arab countries.
