The angry young man, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself alight on 17 December 2010, and revolution broke out in Tunisia. But not everyone persecuted by power who sets himself alight in protest can trigger change, as this street vendor did on a sidewalk in Tunisia. In Cairo the following month, Abdou Abdel-Monaam Hamadah also tried to set himself alight, but he who did not die was never referred to as the trigger for the 'January 25 Revolution' of Tahr