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, has caused the current wave of protests against the government throughout 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, set himself on fire in protest after the police took her basket of fruit. The protest action caused a deeply symbolic repressed anger in the population.
President Ben Ali visited the hospital bedside Bouazizi - the university has lived for three weeks before his death Jan. 4 - but was unable to appease the anger of the nation to decades of corruption, low life and repression overwhelming.
After weeks of protests in which more than 100 deaths, the UN says Ben Ali has fled the country on January 14.
Longtime Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi took power and established a government of national unity, including two members of the old guard and the opposition.
But people want a more comprehensive reform, and Ghannouchi has continued to shuffle the government tries to placate angry residents.
Recent presidential elections have been promised within 60 days of flight of Ben Ali.
It is a very different result from what happened in Iran a year and a half ago, when large demonstrations 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.
Incredulous at the end and determined to overthrow it, the Iranians took to the streets, declaring that "Sea of Green" - the color of Islam - would require Ahmadinejad in power.
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 were captured on a shaky video that was seen by millions of people after it was posted online.
But the Iranian security forces cracked down hard. The government supported militia known as the Basij waded in civil demonstrations with motorcycles and clubs, and countless demonstrators were arrested and jailed.
Over time, despite the protests off, and the regime was in power. A year after the disputed election, Ahmadinejad made a triumphant speech to defend it as "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 has led to the peaceful revolution in Lebanon in 2005.
Popular former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated 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 other buildings left shattered and the streets full of rubble vehicles affected. .
Many Lebanese - as well as U.S. and United Nations investigators - thought Syria was responsible.
Upon the death of Hariri, Syria had enormous political influence in neighboring countries and the troops had maintained in its smaller neighbor since the 1980s.
The killing provoked widespread protests known as the Cedar Revolution, which led to the eventual withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon and the election of an anti-Syrian bloc in parliament.
Hariri's son, Saad became prime minister.
But even in Lebanon, which has much more experience with democracy than most other countries in the region remains the result of the revolution clear.
Saad Hariri, was forced to power this year after ministers allied with the movement of Syrian and Iranian-supported militant Hezbollah to stop the government.
Najib Mikati, a new prime minister loyal to Hezbollah, took office last week - the same day that Hariri's supporters took to the streets for a "day of rage".
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, has caused the current wave of protests against the government throughout 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, set himself on fire in protest after the police took her basket of fruit. The protest action caused a deeply symbolic repressed anger in the population.
President Ben Ali visited the hospital bedside Bouazizi - the university has lived for three weeks before his death Jan. 4 - but was unable to appease the anger of the nation to decades of corruption, low life and repression overwhelming.
After weeks of protests in which more than 100 deaths, the UN says Ben Ali has fled the country on January 14.
Longtime Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi took power and established a government of national unity, including two members of the old guard and the opposition.
But people want a more comprehensive reform, and Ghannouchi has continued to shuffle the government tries to placate angry residents.
Recent presidential elections have been promised within 60 days of flight of Ben Ali.
It is a very different result from what happened in Iran a year and a half ago, when large demonstrations 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.
Incredulous at the end and determined to overthrow it, the Iranians took to the streets, declaring that "Sea of Green" - the color of Islam - would require Ahmadinejad in power.
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 were captured on a shaky video that was seen by millions of people after it was posted online.
But the Iranian security forces cracked down hard. The government supported militia known as the Basij waded in civil demonstrations with motorcycles and clubs, and countless demonstrators were arrested and jailed.
Over time, despite the protests off, and the regime was in power. A year after the disputed election, Ahmadinejad made a triumphant speech to defend it as "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 has led to the peaceful revolution in Lebanon in 2005.
Popular former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated 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 other buildings left shattered and the streets full of rubble vehicles affected. .
Many Lebanese - as well as U.S. and United Nations investigators - thought Syria was responsible.
Upon the death of Hariri, Syria had enormous political influence in neighboring countries and the troops had maintained in its smaller neighbor since the 1980s.
The killing provoked widespread protests known as the Cedar Revolution, which led to the eventual withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon and the election of an anti-Syrian bloc in parliament.
Hariri's son, Saad became prime minister.
But even in Lebanon, which has much more experience with democracy than most other countries in the region remains the result of the revolution clear.
Saad Hariri, was forced to power this year after ministers allied with the movement of Syrian and Iranian-supported militant Hezbollah to stop the government.
Najib Mikati, a new prime minister loyal to Hezbollah, took office last week - the same day that Hariri's supporters took to the streets for a "day of rage".
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.