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, ...

Fifteen years after the Middle East’s largest pro-democracy movement, the West still has not learned that supporting autocracy is no longer sustainable. The Arab Spring carries multiple meanings for ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. On Dec. 17, a Tunisian street vendor set himself alight and sparked protests that engulfed ...

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 ...

Investigation related to the ‘Egyptian Revolution’ closed. Bern, 13.4.2022 - Since 2011, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzer ...

Elevated oil and fertilizer prices could stir unrest in the Middle East again, Sarah Yerkes writes in a guest commentary.

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 ...

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 ...