It's been 10 years since Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak was forced from power by millions of protesters. It’s considered one of the high points of what was then called the "Arab Spring." And we were ...

In the wake of the Arab Spring and the global financial crisis, focus has been on the world’s new and so-called “disrupted society.” But I would avoid using such a negative phrase for Jordan; which is ...

1 in 3 people in Middle East, North Africa say they've paid a bribe in last year 61% believe corruption has increased, 15% think corruption has decreased Five years after the Arab Spring revolution ...

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: From Tunisia to Syria, the uprisings of 2011 showed how revolutions often give way to chaos or renewed authoritarianism, a lesson Jerusalem cannot ignore as Iran convulses. A ...

Khalil Shikaki is the world’s foremost pollster and interpreter of Palestinian public opinion. A senior fellow of Brandeis’ Crown Center for Middle East Research, he has directed the Ramallah-based ...

More than a protest, it was a revolution that swept across the Arab world, powered by the pent-up anger of millions who were suddenly no longer afraid. A year of protests began on December 17, 2010, ...

Marc Lynch, The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East (PublicAffairs, 2016). On May 19, 2011, President Barack Obama stood in the ornate Ben Franklin Room on the State Department’s 8 ...

One thing Algerians don't want, protesters say, is to be compared to the Arab Spring or share the fate of so many of their neighbors. Economic stagnation and unemployment has long beset the country of ...

Judging by economic data alone, the revolutions of the 2011 Arab Spring should have never happened. The numbers from the decades before had told a glowing story: the region had been making steady ...

Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. The civil rights leader helped drag this nation out of the shadow of its most Walter Scott’s Murder And The Unfulfilled ...