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On Dec. 17, 2010, 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi stood outside the governor's office in rural Sidi Bouzi, Tunisia, doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire.
Les Campbell, senior associate and regional director for Middle East and North Africa programs at the National Democratic Institute in Washington, D.C., compared the Arab Spring to the fall of the Berlin Wall.