Fifteen years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor whose cart was confiscated by the police, set himself on fire to protest against police harassment and the ...

Exactly 15 years ago, the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia prompted an unprecedented pan-Arab protest movement that demonstrated the overwhelming Arab desire for more democratic forms ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years have passed since the Arab Spring protests erupted in Egypt. Inspired by the successful uprising in Tunisia just 11 ...

This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. You might be ready for some football but many Native Americans say they are already tired of hearing team names they consider racial slurs. We'll ...

What inspired you to write The Future of the Arab Spring? The Arab revolutions, which began in December 2010, were my most obvious inspiration. As someone who had worked on and long been obsessed with ...

I’ve been trying to find out who dubbed the Arab uprisings that gripped Egypt and Tunisia the “Arab Spring.” Why did Western countries call the killing of thousands of innocent souls a “spring”? Was ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Arab Spring uprising and subsequent conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa have lowered life expectancy in countries such as Syria, Yemen, Tunisia and ...