'Arab Spring 2.0': Understanding protests muddling Iraq, Lebanon and the Middle East Protesters in each country are calling for changes in government amid a deep distrust of leaders and for economic ...

A significant Middle East anniversary passed this week with hardly anyone noticing. On January 14, 2011, Tunisia’s autocratic leader, president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, abruptly and unceremoniously ...

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes," Mark Twain once said—and nowhere does it feel more apt than today, as recent upheavals in South Asia echo the Arab Spring that shook North Africa ...

The pro-democracy movement marked the death knell of Arab nationalism and unintentionally quickened a shift of regional power toward the Gulf States. In early December, Tunisian authorities arrested a ...

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: From Tunisia to Syria, the uprisings of 2011 showed how revolutions often give way to chaos or renewed authoritarianism, a lesson Jerusalem cannot ignore as Iran convulses. A ...