In Tunisia, act of one fruit vendor unleashes wave of revolution through Arab world
By Marc Fisher | Saturday, March 26, 2011 | Washington Post
“…This wave of change happened because aging dictators grew cocky and distant from the people they once courted, because the new social media that the secret police didn’t quite understand reached a critical mass of people, and because, in a rural town where respect is more valued than money, Mohammed Bouazizi was humiliated in front of his friends….”
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