Doctors and nurses in Bahrain, during the Arab Spring, tell stories of how they were tortured, imprisoned, and jailed for treating injured demonstrators. Security forces convicted them of "collaborating" with demonstrators. The Arab Spring movement started on December 18, 2010.

Charlie Beckett, Director of the London School of Economics, discusses how social media helped the Arab Spring grow and why citizen journalism fueled the revolution. Beckett also comments on the sheer volume of content that news associations can access and the importance of validating the information. The Arab Spring began on December 18, 2010 in response to the self-immolation of a Tunisian vendor on December 17th who experienced bureaucratic harassment.

Libyan writer Hisham Matar discusses his country's revolution that followed the self-immolation of Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi. Matar comments on the start of the revolution, Libya's relationship with other countries, and the importance of writers and journalists during a period of transition. The Arab Spring officially began on December 18, 2010, one day after Bouazizi's protest.

The family of Mohamed Bouazizi recalls what happened on December 17, 2010, the day he set himself on fire as protest against the harassment he received as a street vendor. Bouazizi's self-immolation has been credited as the beginning of the Arab Spring movement that started on December 18, 2010 and spread all over the Middle East.

Journalist Harald Doornbos was in Libya during the Arab Spring. In this 2011 Ted Talk X in Amsterdam, he presents the souvenirs and propaganda he brought back from a country in the middle of a revolution.

Award-winning Middle East foreign correspondent Johnny West, author of the book Karma, talks about his experiences in Egypt during the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring was triggered by the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia on December 17, 2010 as a protest and the revolution spread all over the Middle East on December 18, 2010.

An American social studies teacher spent 10 days in Cairo, Egypt and he discusses his experiences during the protests. The Arab Spring began on December 18, 2010, just one day after Tunisian vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest of harassment he experienced.

Journalism student from UC Berkeley, Justin Hinton, was studying in Egypt when the Arab Spring protests broke out and he recounts his time during the revolution.