The event sparked the protest movement known as the Arab Spring is when a Tunisian man named Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire to protest not being allowed to sell fruit.
<span>The Arab Spring,
also referred to as Arab revolutions, was a revolutionary wave of both
violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups, foreign
interventions, and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that
began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution.