From Tunisia to Syria, the uprisings of 2011 showed how revolutions often give way to chaos or renewed authoritarianism, a ...
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From the ashes of the Arab Spring

On January 14, 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to resign, after four weeks of revolt in the north ...
Fifteen years after the Arab Spring, the women who lit the spark still struggle for influence, equality and protection ...
Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh watched his successor sworn in Monday, capping Saleh's three decades at the helm of the Persian Gulf country almost a year after Arab Spring unrest unmoored ...
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Is Iran headed towards a Persian Spring?

Former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Gordon Gray draws striking parallels between the current 2026 protests in Iran and the 2011 ...
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 ...
Fifteen years after the Middle East’s largest pro-democracy movement, the West still has not learned that supporting autocracy is no longer sustainable. The Arab Spring carries multiple meanings for ...