It has been ten years since 2011, when a wave of uprisings quickly spread from North Africa across the Middle East and beyond. The protests, conveyed in the images of squares in revolt (the Kasbah in Tunis or Tahrir in Cairo), became the symbol of the aspiration for regime change that quickly overwhelmed governments across the entire region. In the Western media, those images circulated rapidly and were often referred to as popular protests for democracy. In reality, the narrative of a people’s revolt eager to impose democratic regime changes in their respective countries soon turned out to be misleading; it was related more to an external expectation, linked with Western perception, rather than an impetus from inside the protests. The uprisings did not follow a precise revolutionary political program nor present a clear demand for democracy in pursuit of the Western model.