It's been 10 years since Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak was forced from power by millions of protesters. It’s considered one of the high points of what was then called the "Arab Spring." And we were ...
Fifteen years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor whose cart was confiscated by the police, set himself on fire to protest against police harassment and the ...
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Shadi Hamid, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about Tunisia's new constitutional referendum that gives President Kais Saied near total power. This week, ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Doha, Qatar—The Arab Spring that toppled governments in North Africa and the Middle East turned into an Arab summer for ...
The Arab Spring was a wave of protests and uprisings that swept across the Middle East and North Africa starting in 2010, shaking the foundations of long-standing regimes. This video breaks down the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A TUNISIAN expatriate shouts slogans while holding a placard reading ‘Free Tunisia,’ as he demonstrates on January 15, 2011, in ...
There is a fundamental sickness in liberal foreign policy. So argues John Rossomando, an analyst at the Washington-based think tank for The Center for Security Policy and a former researcher for the ...
Riad Kahwaji, CEO, Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis – INEGMA discusses the impact and the forecast for the Arab Spring Over ten months have passed since the so-called Arab Spring ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab women played a central role in the Arab Spring, but their hopes the revolts would bring greater freedom and expanded rights for women have been thwarted by entrenched ...
With long-standing U.S. allies toppled or under pressure from unprecedented dissent across the Arab world, Michael Doran, in "The Heirs of Nasser" (May/June 2011), warns that Iran is poised to walk ...
Juan Cole tells the backstory of the revolutions in North Africa, exploring events in the context of their cultural setting. His conclusions are optimistic yet grounded in realism. Christians in the ...