A US political scientist’s coinage renamed a North African revolt with non-native imagery

Evidence

There was an elective affinity between media coverage and revolutionary elements with a liberal, pro-Western orientation. The term “Arab Spring,” applied in January by a US political scientist in Foreign Policy magazine, was widely adopted by the global press, despite the fact that spring has very different connotations on the northern edge of the Sahara Desert, and none of the original protesters used it. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 231

Categorization

• CANDY: Light, tweetable irony: none of the protesters themselves used ‘Arab Spring’ and it was winter anyway.