Question: in which country did an event occur that led to the 2011 arab spring
Answer: The Arab Spring , ( Arabic : الربيع العربي ‎ ‎ ar - Rabīʻ al - ʻArabī ) also referred to as Arab revolutions ( Arabic : الثورات العربية ‎ ‎ aṯ - ' awrāt al - ʻarabiyyah ) , was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations , protests , riots , coups and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 17 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution .