Arab Spring scroll

I've been working on some different formats for the scroll for the Arab Spring project:

I'm using a till roll and adding writing, diagrams, maps and a 'travel line'.  I quite like this idea but am not really convinced.

I then thought of producing the parallel Arab Spring timeline (which I am referencing from the Guardian website Guardian : Arab Spring: an interactive timeline) and my own timeline as text attached to the roll.

I then went to a written option:

This seems too much like previous work done ... so I've gone back to square one on this option at the moment.