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

On January 14, 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to resign, after four weeks of revolt in the north ...

On December 17, a Tunisian street vendor set himself alight and sparked protests that engulfed the Middle East. Six months and six countries later, the Arab Spring has swept from Tunisia to Cairo. And ...

Iran protests have revived the 2011 Arab Spring debate. But what exactly the economic scorecard of countries that saw ...

Former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Gordon Gray draws striking parallels between the current 2026 protests in Iran and the 2011 ...

Five years ago today, the self-immolation of Tunisian fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi sparked the Arab Spring. At this distance, it’s possible to ask a difficult question: Has the Arab Spring been good ...

A decade ago, we were in the throes of what observers in the West termed the "Arab Spring." An assessment is now in order. Because Western analysts assumed that these uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Doha, Qatar—The Arab Spring that toppled governments in North Africa and the Middle East turned into an Arab summer for ...

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 ...

Gabriel Allon returns in a few days, and as hundreds of thousands of expectant fans snatch up “Portrait of a Spy,” author Daniel Silva’s timing and eye will once again astonish reviewers and his ...

Over at The Corner, Andrew McCarthy has inaugurated what I suspect will be a long-running series called “Annals of the Arab Spring.” A couple of days ago, Andy dilated on the Egyptian demand that ...

This week, the last democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring came to a sputtering end. Voters in Tunisia passed a constitutional referendum giving President Kais Saied near-total power, weakening an ...