ABSTRACT
In January 2011 a massive domino-effect wave of anti-establishment protests and demonstrations seized the Arab world. It started with dozens of protesters in Egypt and Algeria imitating Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act of self-burning in Tunisia and ended with hundreds of thousands of Tunisians taking to the streets. It was subsequently followed by an endless chain of uprisings and demonstrations that was dubbed as “Arab Spring” and stretched from Algeria, Libya and Egypt to Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Bahrain and Yemen. The primary means of protesters up to this moment has been their scanting, marching and putting forward their bodies and exposing them to the possibility of being caught, mutilated and shot by regime forces. Thus, the human body, or to be more precise its vulnerability, has been one of the main factors of affirmative or subversive political action.
