Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor whose cart was confiscated by the police, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Arab Spring has ended in total ruin. I don’t just mean that it has failed to deliver the freedoms for which its authors hoped in 2011. I mean, it has, from a very low base, made life even worse in ...

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In late 2010, a single act of protest in Tunisia ignited a regional wave of revolution. Known as the Arab Spring, it toppled governments, inspired millions, and sparked civil wars. But the hope for ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa replaced his brother Basil Rajapaksa as finance minister, but new appointee Ali Sabry resigned just a day later. At least 41 Sri Lankan lawmakers walked out of the ruling ...