The Arab Awakening

In this first episode, Journalist Rageh Omaar examines how the death of a street fruit vendor led to a wave of uprisings across the Arab world.

Driven by its youth, Egypt’s revolution embraced all sectors of society. As the fear barrier was broken, destinies were transformed by the tumultuous events. An examination of the demise of the Mubarak regime through the eyes of people whose lives were, until now, defined by it.

A day-by-day account of how a protest became a people’s revolution and brought down one of the most durable leaders in the Arab world.

Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior analyst, hosts a debate on the triggers and traumas of revolution in the Middle East after decades of repression.

A film following the activists who led Egypt’s revolution, as they attempt to capitalise on their unexpected success.

Through the eyes of a Libyan-born filmmaker, we investigate the dark stories emerging from a country fast unraveling into civil war.

Those in a position to know reveal the ‘tricks of the trade’ of Arab dictatorship.

“The people want the fall of the regime” is the shared slogan of the Arab uprisings. In this episode an array of characters from across the region explain what they want and what they expect for the future.

Cairo's 'Twitterati' tweeted their revolution for 18 days from in and around Tahrir Square. Young, urbane and highly-motivated, their tweets revealed the truth of the scale of the uprising which Egypt's state media sought to hide, and gave a street-level, minute-by-minute account of how the persistence and bravery of the Egyptian people brought down a dictator.