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When Mohammed Bouazizi1 1 Mohammed Bouazizi was a Tunisian street vendor who on 17 December 2010 set himself on fire in protest of Tunisian authorities confiscating his merchandise and humiliating him. Bouazizi’s act and name became a catalyst for the ‘Tunisian Revolution’ and the wider so-called ‘Arab Spring’. The term ‘Arab Spring’ has been challenged among various academics, journalists, and many Arabs. Thus, to refrain from using a contested term, this book uses the term post-Bouazizi to refer to the events and protests that took place in the Gulf and the Middle East region after December 2010. For details on the events post-Bouazizi in Oman, see Chap. 6 of this study. set himself on fire in protest against the Tunisian author-ities in 2010, he quickly became a universal symbol across the Arab world. The response from frustrated citizens calling for social justice, freedom, and equal oppor-tunities revealed that a complex web of interdependent social, economic, and political relationships had been involved in his action. Protests swept the region reaching the Sultanate of Oman in late February 2011.2 2 This book will use ‘the Sultanate’, ‘Oman’, and the ‘Sultanate of Oman’ interchangeably. The article ‘Black Sunday in Sohar’ published by Muscat Daily,3 3 Muscat Daily is a privately owned newspaper that was created in 2009 by an Omani businessman, Salih Al-Zakwani. It has won awards for its ‘unbiased’ coverage of several issues pertaining to the 2011 protests in Oman. Muscat Daily staff writer. 2011. ‘Black Sunday in Sohar’. Muscat Daily, last accessed 26 September 2014, http://www.muscatdaily.com/Archive/Stories-Files/Black-Sun day-in-Sohar. a private local Omani newspaper, reported that nearly two thousand protesters took to the streets of Sohar4 4 Sohar is a city in Oman where an economic free-zone and port is situated. The port is very important to the Omani economy as 160,000 barrels of oil-derived products are exported from it daily. demanding job opportunities, salary increases, lower cost of living, an end to endemic corruption and inefficiency, and the removal of allegedly corrupt ministers and government officials. In the city