Tower Of The Sun: Stories From The Middle East And North Africa - Plot & Excerpts
– Edward Lorenz, mathematician and chaos theorist On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the streets of Sarajevo—a fateful act that triggered a series of events culminating in the First World War. Ninety-six years later, on December 17, 2010, an impoverished Tunisian fruit vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in front of city hall in the small town of Sidi Bouzid—another fateful act that changed the history of an entire region forever. Protests supporting Bouazizi first turned to riots and then revolution. The crooked authoritarian ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown in Tunis less than a month later. A copycat uprising in Egypt led to a bloodless military coup against strongman Hosni Mubarak. Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi was next on the list, though this time it took civil war and aerial bombardment from NATO to be rid of him. Protests against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad mushroomed into a multi-sided civil war featuring the Free Syrian Army, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the Al Qaeda-linked Jabhat al Nusra, and the even more terrifying Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, which eventually--and perhaps inevitably--sucked int he United States.
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