Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor whose cart was confiscated by the police, ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Shadi Hamid, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about Tunisia's new constitutional referendum that gives President Kais Saied near total power. This week, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A TUNISIAN expatriate shouts slogans while holding a placard reading ‘Free Tunisia,’ as he demonstrates on January 15, 2011, in ...

Riad Kahwaji, CEO, Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis – INEGMA discusses the impact and the forecast for the Arab Spring Over ten months have passed since the so-called Arab Spring ...

Juan Cole tells the backstory of the revolutions in North Africa, exploring events in the context of their cultural setting. His conclusions are optimistic yet grounded in realism. Christians in the ...

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland participates in a bilateral meeting with Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerand in New York on Sept. 20, 2021. (State Department photo ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. On Dec. 17, a Tunisian street vendor set himself alight and sparked protests that engulfed ...

With long-standing U.S. allies toppled or under pressure from unprecedented dissent across the Arab world, Michael Doran, in "The Heirs of Nasser" (May/June 2011), warns that Iran is poised to walk ...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa replaced his brother Basil Rajapaksa as finance minister, but new appointee Ali Sabry resigned just a day later. At least 41 Sri Lankan lawmakers walked out of the ruling ...

When The Revolution Came To Town is a new graphic novel by Isra Moussaoui and Beth Bacon, and drawn by Noha Habaieb. Which tells the story of an 11-year-old girl's experience of the first days of the ...