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Looking Back At Arab Spring 10 Years Later

The actions of a single man launched a movement that grew to involve hundreds of thousands of people 10 years ago Thursday. A Tunisian street vendor set himself on fire after authorities confiscated the fruit he was selling on the side of the road.

That was the catalyst for a wave of protests that swept across the Middle East in 2010.

Host Lisa Mullins speaks with the BBC's Sally Nabil in Egypt, the country that became the epicenter for the movement.

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