AMMAN, Jordan — An agreement between the Jordanian Teachers Syndicate and government ended a four-week strike on Oct. 5, after the government agreed to raise the teachers' basic salaries between 35% and 60%, depending on their professional grades, from next year.

In light of the Jordanian teachers’ strike that started Sept. 8, Jordanian activists are now focusing on Egypt where Mohamed Ali, a construction contractor and actor, has made a call for mass protests every Friday to bring down the regime of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

The Jordanian activists feel that the popular protests in Egypt could revive their hope for economic and political reforms, based on the idea that freedom is contagious, similarly to what happened in 2011 when they marched the streets following Tunisia's Arab Spring uprising.

Hisham al-Hesah, a Jordanian activist, told Al-Monitor, “The protests in Egypt are a sign to the regimes and peoples indicating that the Arab Spring wave is yet to end, and that the Arab peoples continue to have a thirst for freedom, genuine democracy, for a decent life and countering corruption and despotism.”