Despite mixed results, observers generally praised the Arab Spring as a revolutionary democratic moment for a region long ...

Fifteen years after the Middle East’s largest pro-democracy movement, the West still has not learned that supporting ...

“Kais Saied’s authoritarian rule has definitively buried the hopes and aspirations of the 2011 revolution by systematically ...

As Tunisia marks the 15th anniversary of the revolution that provoked the Arab Spring, RFI spoke to exiled former leader ...

On December 17, 2010, Tunisian vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, triggering protests across the Arab world.

The Arab Spring is not a completed event but a process that has fundamentally altered the region’s political landscape… but ...

Thirty months after the events that kicked off the Arab Spring, the various countries that saw massive upheaval remain, well, in upheaval. Egypt’s lauded democratization project has reached a ...

Despite the chaos, the blood and the democratic setbacks, this is a long process. Do not give up hope. ROUGHLY two-and-a-half years after the revolutions in the Arab world, not a single country is yet ...

The storming of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump supporters led to the #AmericanSpring Twitter hashtag trending across the Middle East, referencing popular uprisings in 2011 which upended decades-old ...

Perhaps it's the morning-after effect. Three years after popular uprisings did away with some of the Arab world's most notorious tyrants, wide-eyed expectations for a genuinely democratic Arab Spring ...

Editorial Page Writer Sohrab Ahmari marks the fifth anniversary of the movement that swept the Middle East. Photo credit: 3arabwy. Thursday marks a bitter anniversary in the Arab world. On Dec. 17, ...

Read and hear stories from the Morning Edition series, The Arab Spring: One Year Later. The demonstrations that spread across the Middle East in 2011 unseated leaders in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.