Despite mixed results, observers generally praised the Arab Spring as a revolutionary democratic moment for a region long mired in tyranny. Yet, 15 years on, it is clear that while popular demands for ...

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 ...

Just over a decade ago, unrelated meltdowns by a CNBC reporter and a Tunisian street vendor set two vehicles moving in opposite directions. The vendor, Tarek al Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire, ...

Iran's opposition Green Movement called for Iranians to take to the streets this month as the country marks the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Iran's Green Voice of Freedom reported.

It has been nearly a year and a half since the start of the "Arab Spring" uprisings - the wave of protests advocating for democratic reform in the Middle East - and despite the leaps of progress that ...

The Arab Spring was a wave of protests and uprisings that swept across the Middle East and North Africa starting in 2010, shaking the foundations of long-standing regimes. This video breaks down the ...

The Arab Spring protest movement took the Middle East and North Africa by storm 10 years ago, sparked in part by the Jan. 4, 2011 death of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi, who had set himself ...

Simon Mabon receives funding from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Simon Mabon is a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Centre. As the popular refrain of “ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam” rang out across 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 ...