With an unprecedented number of protesters in the streets of Egypt requested that President Hosni Mubarak to resign, what tracks earlier events in the area offer what will happen in Cairo?
The results were mixed.
Tunisia, a relatively small country, and apparently secure in the Mediterranean region, has triggered the current wave of anti-government protests across the Middle East.
It was decided by President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali for 23 years and was considered a police state established.
But in December 2010, a fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, 26, was ablaze in protest after police took her basket of fruit. The deeply symbolic act of protest aroused the fury of the population.
President Ben Ali visited the hospital bed Bouaziz - Närpiö lived three weeks before his death on Jan. 4 - but failed to appease the rage for decades of corruption and low living standards and rectify oppression.
After weeks of protests in which more than 100 people died, according to the UN, Ben Ali has fled the country on 14 January.
In the long term, Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi has taken the reins of power and created a government of national unity, including two members of the old guard and the opposition.
But the people demanded a more comprehensive reform, and Ghannouchi continued to beat the government to try to appease an angry population.
New elections have been promised within 60 days after the escape of Ben Ali.
It is a very different result from what happened in Iran a year and a half earlier, when large protests erupted after the presidential elections of June 2009.
Many Iranians expected loss in well-established hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but official results showed him winning.
Disbelief is the end result and decided to withdraw it, the Iranians on the streets, claiming that the "sea of green - the color of Islam - would have forced Ahmadinejad is exhausted.
The apparent revolution captured the imagination of the world, especially after a young woman, Agha-Soltan, was killed by a bullet in the chest during a demonstration.
The last moments of his life was caught in a shaky video, which was seen by millions of people since it was posted online.
But the Iranian security forces severely repressed. government-backed militias known as the Basij ford on events in civilian clothes, motorcycle clubs, and many protesters were gathered and thrown into prison.
More protests petered out, and the system remained in power. One year after the disputed election, Ahmadinejad made a triumphant speech to defend the "free" and blamed "unfair" foreign governments to interfere in Iranian affairs.
"But the Iranian nation will defeat them," he said.
A shocking act of violence leads to a peaceful revolution in Lebanon in 2005.
Popular former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed by a massive bombardment on his way to Beirut.
The bomb contained hundreds of kilograms of explosives. He killed 22 people in addition to Hariri and left buildings shattered and the streets filled with the wreckage of mangled vehicles. .
Many Lebanese - as well as U.S. investigators and the UN - believed Syria was responsible.
On the death of Hariri, neighboring Syria had enormous political influence in the country and has maintained troops in its smaller neighbor since 1980.
The killing sparked widespread protests known as the Cedar Revolution that led to the eventual withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon and the election of an anti-Syrian bloc in parliament.
son Saad Hariri becomes prime minister.
But even in Lebanon, which has much more experience of democracy than most other countries in the region, the results of the revolution remain unclear.
Saad Hariri, was forced from power this year after government ministers allied with the movement of Syria and Iran, Hezbollah, backed by leaving the government.
Najib Mikati, a new prime minister of Hezbollah faithful was inaugurated last week - the day of Hariri's supporters took to the streets and the "Day of Anger."
E 'was Tuesday, the day that the Egyptians brought their ongoing protests against Mubarak.
In both countries - and across the Middle East - the region and the world watch and wait and see what happens next.
The results were mixed.
Tunisia, a relatively small country, and apparently secure in the Mediterranean region, has triggered the current wave of anti-government protests across the Middle East.
It was decided by President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali for 23 years and was considered a police state established.
But in December 2010, a fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, 26, was ablaze in protest after police took her basket of fruit. The deeply symbolic act of protest aroused the fury of the population.
President Ben Ali visited the hospital bed Bouaziz - Närpiö lived three weeks before his death on Jan. 4 - but failed to appease the rage for decades of corruption and low living standards and rectify oppression.
After weeks of protests in which more than 100 people died, according to the UN, Ben Ali has fled the country on 14 January.
In the long term, Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi has taken the reins of power and created a government of national unity, including two members of the old guard and the opposition.
But the people demanded a more comprehensive reform, and Ghannouchi continued to beat the government to try to appease an angry population.
New elections have been promised within 60 days after the escape of Ben Ali.
It is a very different result from what happened in Iran a year and a half earlier, when large protests erupted after the presidential elections of June 2009.
Many Iranians expected loss in well-established hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but official results showed him winning.
Disbelief is the end result and decided to withdraw it, the Iranians on the streets, claiming that the "sea of green - the color of Islam - would have forced Ahmadinejad is exhausted.
The apparent revolution captured the imagination of the world, especially after a young woman, Agha-Soltan, was killed by a bullet in the chest during a demonstration.
The last moments of his life was caught in a shaky video, which was seen by millions of people since it was posted online.
But the Iranian security forces severely repressed. government-backed militias known as the Basij ford on events in civilian clothes, motorcycle clubs, and many protesters were gathered and thrown into prison.
More protests petered out, and the system remained in power. One year after the disputed election, Ahmadinejad made a triumphant speech to defend the "free" and blamed "unfair" foreign governments to interfere in Iranian affairs.
"But the Iranian nation will defeat them," he said.
A shocking act of violence leads to a peaceful revolution in Lebanon in 2005.
Popular former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed by a massive bombardment on his way to Beirut.
The bomb contained hundreds of kilograms of explosives. He killed 22 people in addition to Hariri and left buildings shattered and the streets filled with the wreckage of mangled vehicles. .
Many Lebanese - as well as U.S. investigators and the UN - believed Syria was responsible.
On the death of Hariri, neighboring Syria had enormous political influence in the country and has maintained troops in its smaller neighbor since 1980.
The killing sparked widespread protests known as the Cedar Revolution that led to the eventual withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon and the election of an anti-Syrian bloc in parliament.
son Saad Hariri becomes prime minister.
But even in Lebanon, which has much more experience of democracy than most other countries in the region, the results of the revolution remain unclear.
Saad Hariri, was forced from power this year after government ministers allied with the movement of Syria and Iran, Hezbollah, backed by leaving the government.
Najib Mikati, a new prime minister of Hezbollah faithful was inaugurated last week - the day of Hariri's supporters took to the streets and the "Day of Anger."
E 'was Tuesday, the day that the Egyptians brought their ongoing protests against Mubarak.
In both countries - and across the Middle East - the region and the world watch and wait and see what happens next.