Der arabische Frühling, ein echter Aufstand des Volkes gegen jahrzehntelange Korruption und Unterdrückung, verdankte also seine überraschend schnelle Verbreitung dem Einfluss von Al Jazeera, der Stimme der schweigenden Mehrheit des Nahen Ostens.
So, while the Arab Spring has been a genuine popular uprising against decades of corrupt and oppressive authoritarian regimes, its rapid spread, which caught almost everyone by surprise, was due in part to the influence of Al Jazeera, which became the voice of the voiceless throughout the Middle East.