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 ...

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 ...

Suddenly, people all over the Arab world are feeling a sense of pride—and the West is paying attention. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

Five years after the Arab Spring revolution brought citizens into the streets to demonstrate against government corruption and other issues, how much has really changed? New governments were ushered ...

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.

Egypt requested that the artifact be returned under the 1970 UNESCO Convention, which both it and the Netherlands are ...

Veteran war correspondent Anthony Shadid spent much of the past decade in Baghdad covering the Iraq war, first for The Washington Post and then for The New York Times. Last December, Shadid left ...

Throughout 2011, a rhythmic chant echoed across the Arab lands: "The people want to topple the regime." It skipped borders with ease, carried in newspapers and magazines, on Twitter and Facebook, on ...

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 ...

It was a difficult year for the Arab Spring. Egypt is in the throes of its worst political crisis since mass street protests ousted President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. And in Syria, the civil war worsens ...