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The Arab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي‎ ar-Rabīʻ al-ʻArabiyy) is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world that began on Saturday, 18 December 2010. To date, there have been revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt; a civil war in Libya resulting in the fall of the country's government; civil uprisings in Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen;[6] major protests in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Oman] and minor protests in Lebanon, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia,Sudan, and Western Sahara. Clashes at the borders of Israel in May 2011 and the Palestine 194 movement have also been inspired by the regional Arab Spring. The protests have shared techniques of civil resistance in sustained campaigns involving strikes, demonstrations, marches, and rallies, as well as the use of social media to organize, communicate, and raise awareness in the face of state attempts at repression and Internet censorship. Many demonstrations have met violent responses from authorities,] as well as from pro-government militias and counter-demonstrators. A major slogan of the demonstrators in the Arab world has been Ash-shaʻb yurīd isqāṭ an-niẓām ("the people want to bring down the regime") Protests in Syria started on 26 January, when one case of self-immolation was reported. Protesters have been calling for political reforms and the reinstatement of civil rights, as well as an end to the state of emergency, which has been in place since 1963.[208] A "day of rage" was set for <b>...</b>