Women played an essential role in the Arab uprisings that swept the Middle East and North Africa all through last year. Yet as countries like Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya go through transitions, women ...

The pro-democracy movement marked the death knell of Arab nationalism and unintentionally quickened a shift of regional power toward the Gulf States.

Despite mixed results, observers generally praised the Arab Spring as a revolutionary democratic moment for a region long ...

Fifteen years after the Arab Spring, the women who lit the spark still struggle for influence, equality and protection ...

Tawakkol Karman, winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, is known as “The Mother of the Revolution” in Yemen, where she was at the forefront of the struggle for human rights and women’s participation in ...

Peter Snowdon’s 2014 feature turns the amateur videos of the Arab Spring into a you-are-there documentation of history made in the streets. By J. Hoberman Steven Soderbergh, after shooting his 2018 ...

An Egyptian protester holds his national flag as he shouts slogans against President Hosni Mubarak at Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011. Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images Ten years on, the lives of people 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 ...

The Arab Spring started 10 years ago this month and led to trouble - civil wars or even more repression. But some are holding onto the ideals of free speech and change. What is left of the Arab Spring ...

Nine years ago this month, residents of the small Syrian town of Douma were in full rebellion against the regime of President Bashar Assad. Throughout the preceding year, Assad had watched as popular ...

Jon Alterman: Issandr El Amrani is the regional director for the Middle East/North Africa region at the Open Society Foundation. Prior to joining Open Society, Issandr served as the North Africa ...