When the Syrian revolution began back in 2011, the country was not alone. Syrians joined a wave of uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa. The movement started in Tunisia, with the death of ...
Exactly 15 years ago, the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia prompted an unprecedented pan-Arab protest movement that demonstrated the overwhelming Arab desire for more democratic forms ...
(Reuters) - The European Union should cut off aid payments to Arab Spring countries that fail to deliver on economic and political reform, Britain's Europe Minister David Lidington said on Friday. In ...
Fifteen years have passed since the Arab Spring protests erupted in Egypt. Inspired by the successful uprising in Tunisia just 11 days earlier, when demonstrators succeeded in bringing down the ...
I’ve been trying to find out who dubbed the Arab uprisings that gripped Egypt and Tunisia the “Arab Spring.” Why did Western countries call the killing of thousands of innocent souls a “spring”? Was ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab women played a central role in the Arab Spring, but their hopes the revolts would bring greater freedom and expanded rights for women have been thwarted by entrenched ...