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Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi (; 29 March 1984 – 4 January 2011) was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, in protest of the confiscation of his wares and the harassment and humiliation that he reported was inflicted on him by a municipal official and her aides. His act became a catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution〔 and the wider Arab Spring, inciting demonstrations and riots throughout Tunisia in protest of social and political issues in the country. The public's anger and violence intensified following Bouazizi's death, leading then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to step down on 14 January 2011, after 23 years in power. The success of the Tunisian protests inspired protests in several other Arab countries, plus several non-Arab countries. The protests included several men who emulated Bouazizi's act of self-immolation, in an attempt to bring an end to their own autocratic governments. Those men and Bouazizi were hailed by Arab commentators as "heroic martyrs of a new Middle Eastern revolution". In 2011, Bouazizi was posthumously awarded the Sakharov Prize jointly along with four others for his and their contributions to "historic changes in the Arab world".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2011 )〕 The Tunisian government honored him with a postage stamp.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Stamps Issued by Tunisian Government )〕 ''The Times'' of the United Kingdom named Bouazizi as "Person of 2011".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Britain's Times names Tunisian fruitseller 'Person of 2011' )〕 ==Early life and employment struggles== Mohamed Bouazizi, who was known locally as "Basboosa",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tunisia events turning point in Arab world )〕 was born in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, on 29 March 1984. His father, a construction worker in Libya, died of a heart attack when Bouazizi was three, and his mother married Bouazizi's uncle some time later. Along with his six siblings,〔 Bouazizi was educated in a one-room country school in Sidi Salah, a small village from Sidi Bouzid. Although several media outlets reported that Bouazizi had a university degree,〔 his sister, Samia Bouazizi, stated that he had never graduated from high school, but that it was something he had wanted for both himself and his sisters.〔 With his uncle in poor health and unable to work regularly, Bouazizi had worked various jobs since he was ten,〔 and in his late teens he quit school in order to work full-time.〔 Bouazizi lived in a modest stucco home, a 20-minute walk from the center of Sidi Bouzid, a rural town in Tunisia burdened by corruption and suffering an unemployment rate estimated at 30%.〔 According to his mother, he applied to join the army, but was refused, and several subsequent job applications also resulted in rejection.〔 He supported his mother, uncle, and younger siblings, including paying for one of his sisters to attend university, by earning approximately per month selling produce on the street in Sidi Bouzid.〔〔 He was also working toward the goal of buying or renting a pickup truck for his work.〔 A close friend of Bouazizi said he "was a very well-known and popular man () would give free fruit and vegetables to very poor families".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mohamed Bouazizi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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