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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
IN HIS 1998 work Dream Palace of the Arabs, Fouad Ajami wrote, “As the world batters the modern Arab inheritance, the rhetorical need for anti-Zionism grows. But there rises, too, the recognition that ...
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 12: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) heads back into the Oval Office after making a statement about the death of U.S. ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens with ...
The liberal islands of college campuses continue to disappoint us. The handling of the "Arab Spring Break" protests around the country tells you all you need to know. This did not happen at my alma ...
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 ...
Elevated oil and fertilizer prices could stir unrest in the Middle East again, Sarah Yerkes writes in a guest commentary.
Correction appended: Aug. 25, 2013, 7:27 p.m. E.T. While violence rages in Cairo, the dysfunctional center of the Arab Spring, another unresolved conflict from that season of unrest in the region is ...