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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mohamed Bouazizi

1984 - 2011

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Tarek El-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi (Arabic: طارق الطيب محمد البوعزيزي, romanized: Ṭāriq aṭ-Ṭayib Muḥammad al-Būʿazīzī; 29 March 1984 – 4 January 2011) was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010 in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, an act which became a catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring against autocratic regimes. His self-immolation was in response to the confiscation of his wares and the harassment and humiliation inflicted on him by a municipal official and her aides. Simmering public anger and sporadic violence intensified following Bouazizi's death, leading the then-president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to step down on 14 January 2011, after 23 years in power. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohamed Bouazizi has received more than 1,403,015 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Mohamed Bouazizi is the 484th most popular social activist (down from 435th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Tunisia (down from 87th in 2019) and the most popular Tunisian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mohamed Bouazizi ranks 484 out of 538Before him are Fazu Aliyeva, Entisar Elsaeed, Josefa Francisco, Betty Ong, Karen Silkwood, and Yun Hyon-seok. After him are Eoin O'Duffy, Berta Cáceres, Ella Baker, Flora Brovina, Akira Amano, and Shivakumara Swami.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Mohamed Bouazizi ranks 105Before him are Jefferson Farfán, Yoon Eun-hye, Vedad Ibišević, Carlos Kameni, Robin Söderling, and Yun Hyon-seok. After him are Jackson Rathbone, Mahamat Déby, Anastasiya Kuzmina, Duffy, Sasha Vujačić, and Elizabeth Holmes. Among people deceased in 2011, Mohamed Bouazizi ranks 353Before him are G. D. Spradlin, Célestin Oliver, Joe Arroyo, Luigi Carpaneda, Barbara Kent, and Yozhef Betsa. After him are Ray Bryant, Ragnhild Hveger, Frank Buckles, Ed Macauley, David Bedford, and Paul Motian.

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In Tunisia

Among people born in Tunisia, Mohamed Bouazizi ranks 94 out of 179Before him are Ali Laarayedh (1955), Alberto Pellegrino (1930), Nabil Maâloul (1962), Hatem Trabelsi (1977), Ziad Tlemçani (1963), and Hédi Annabi (1943). After him are Silvan Shalom (1958), Amina Annabi (1962), Latifa (1961), Elsa Cayat (1960), Chokri Belaid (1964), and Dhafer Youssef (1967).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Tunisia

Among social activists born in Tunisia, Mohamed Bouazizi ranks 1