Revolutionary Situation and State of Unrest in the Arab World - A Decade After Its Outbreak, Have the "Arab Spring" Ended ?

This article comes almost a decade after the outbreak of the Arab Spring events, in order to try and answer the question: Is the Arab Spring really over, or is it simply taking different and new forms and its causes remain in place today? In order to answer this question I will present an explanation of the terms "revolutionary situation" and "revolution", including the need to distinguish between them, where the argument is that the "revolutionary situation" comes one step before the outbreak of the revolution as a set of actual acts of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions, is in fact the period that prepares the ground for the revolution. In this article I shall seek to examine the disappearance or existence of the "revolutionary situation". I will present a set of empirical evidence on the existence of the revolutionary state, i.e., the motives of the Arab Spring are still present in Arab societies nearly a decade later, perhaps more strongly today than previously, meaning that the revolutionary state exists and the reasons for the existence of the revolution itself still exist today, as they did a decade ago when the Arab Spring erupted in Tunisia.