Arab spring

What Is the Arab Spring? The Arab Spring was a loosely related group of protests that ultimately resulted in regime changes in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Not all of the movements, however, could be deemed successful—at least if the end goal was increased democracy and cultural freedom. In fact, for many countries […]

by Ali M Latifi In 2010, when the streets of Tunis, Cairo, Manama and, eventually, Tripoli, Sana’a and Damascus were erupting in protest, I was in DC as a graduate student of International Me…

No matter the Arab leaders’ achievements, it is their shortcomings and failures that define the current era.

Mohammed Gaddafi, pictured, was speaking with Al Jazeera when he heard rebels open fire on guards standing outside his home in Tripoli last night.

The semester is coming to an end, and that means this will likely be my final blog post on this subject. Luckily, we’ve saved a really cool topic for the last week: the role of social media in the…

Egyptian intellectuals and journalists have predicted the outbreak of a second wave of

A decade ago Arabs rose up. Why haven’t things improved?

An interactive timeline of the Arab Spring http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline?fb=native

Five years ago, on 25 January 2011, anti-government protests began across Egypt, publicised on social media.

Across the Arab world, protesters show fury at the resistance to change shown by interim authorities as well as old regimes