Arab Spring

Wanton repression is building up more pressure for the next uprising.

The Arab Spring’s democratic success story is wrestling with the vestiges of an authoritarian past.

A decade after Arabs started a regional revolution, it’s the neighboring continent that will never be the same.

Swedes can’t figure out their government’s coronavirus approach, a progressive push on U.S. foreign policy, and an honest assessment of the Arab Spring’s fallout.

The Arab world is trapped in a state of permanent revolution.

Ten years after the Arab Spring, Tunisians are discovering that political reform alone isn’t enough.

I was a teenage protester, then a prisoner, now a refugee. We won’t go back to silence.

Ten years after the start of the Arab Spring, it’s time to accept that the revolution may never return.

The region has always had problems—but it’s now almost past the point of recovery.

Emergency monetary policies produce an unintended consequence: rising food prices around the world.

Mass protests could put an end to the ethnic clientelism that has empowered corrupt leaders. But demonstrators must stand their ground or risk being co-opted like those who rose up in 2005.

As demonstrations erupt from Iraq to Lebanon to Egypt, the United States is sending strong signals that it no longer has any stomach for democracy promotion.

Police unions are using their country’s newfound freedoms to protect themselves—and attack freedom fighters.

On the podcast: Algeria’s Arab Spring has been peaceful so far, but its future remains uncertain.

The Middle East’s latest protests seem like the Arab Spring all over again. That’s no reason for optimism.

The 82-year-old Abdelaziz Bouteflika has pledged to step down, but the protesters’ victory won’t be complete without a genuine democratic transition.

روح الربيع العربي لا تزال مستمرة كما أظهرت الاحتجاجات الكبيرة في الجزائر والسودان.

Major protests in Algeria and Sudan show that the spirit of 2011 lives on.

By allowing a refugee soccer player to remain stranded in Thailand, soccer’s governing body is scoring another own goal.

Egypt faced terrible repression during the Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak eras, but nothing like today’s sustained cruelty.