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

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 ...

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, ...

Back in 2010, when I was serving as deputy chief of the CIA’s Near East Division, the Arab Spring engulfed the Middle East, bringing with it levels of popular unrest not seen since the fall of the ...

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 ...

o discussion of the year 2011 can be complete without a reference to what's been termed Arab Spring. The political phenomenon has the potential to have an extraordinary impact on ARCHAEOLOGY for years ...

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 ...

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