It was 15 years ago… An important wave of struggles has been flowing across Maghreb and Mashrek. One after another, Tunisia, ...
It's been 10 years since Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak was forced from power by millions of protesters. It’s considered one of the high points of what was then called the "Arab Spring." And we were ...
Sudanese women wave Sudanese flags during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, on June 20, 2019. (Reuters / Umit Bektas) Images of popular protests that recall the revolutionary movement of 2011 have ...
There is a second Arab Spring in the air in North Africa. In Algeria and Sudan, two of the most miserably repressive dictators on the African continent have fallen to popular protests. That sounds ...
Only in one Arab country, Tunisia, did 2011’s Arab Spring achieve any semblance of success. The four other Middle Eastern and North African nations whose uprisings aimed to bring down their leaders ...
It comes as no surprise that the discontentment felt by many in the Arab world is reflected in this year’s Corruption Perceptions Index. Most countries affected by the “Arab Spring” score poorly, in ...
Editor’s Note: Hala Gorani is the anchor of CNN International’s “Hala Gorani Tonight.” She reported from Egypt during the Arab Spring of 2011, and was the host of “Inside the Middle East” on CNN ...
John Rossomando, The Arab Spring Ruse: How the Muslim Brotherhood Duped Washington in Libya and Syria (Washington, DC: The Center for Security Policy, 2021), pp. 128. There is a fundamental sickness ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Sharan Grewal is an assistant professor of government at William & Mary and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. He received a Ph.D. in Politics at Princeton University in 2018 and was ...