Remembering the Arab Spring: In films

And these images inspired revolutionaries in other countries, who also rose up to make their voices heard.This film from 2012 revisits the stories behind some of the iconic images that came to symbolise the early days of the Arab Spring, as told by the people who filmed them.On December 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia, an act which triggered uprisings across the region that changed the history of countries including Egypt, Libya and Syria.Protests that started spontaneously soon became well-organised as people united in support of a shared goal. But as people looked to him for leadership, Negm found himself unable to write.In this film, first broadcast in 2012, a year before his death, we followed the outspoken, irreverent and controversial 83-year-old as he sought his place in the revolution of the young while searching for words and inspiration once more.The island kingdom of Bahrain was the only Gulf country where protests erupted in early 2011 as part of the wave of uprisings sweeping through the Arab World.