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

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

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

Imagine living in a country where a 48-year-old decree, originally written to crush 1970s labor strikes, is the highest law ...

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 ...

Egypt is the biggest, most influential country in the Arab world, and today's elections will have a major impact region wide. With 40 parties and thousands of candidates for the lower house of ...

Eight years after triggering the Arab Spring, Tunisia is held up as a model of democratic transition, while other countries that experienced the mass uprisings are gripped by chaos, repression or war.

Behind the scenes of the Arab Spring, Shiite-led Iran and Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia have been jockeying for influence in the region--a fact on display in the Iranian state media's coverage of the ...

Next week, the UN General Assembly may be asked to recognize a Palestinian state, with the potential for isolating both Israel and the United States. Meantime, Israel is in trouble with its only ...

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia’s former autocratic president whose extravagant life and oppressive rule inspired the first Arab Spring revolts of 2011, died Thursday in exile in Saudi Arabia. He was ...

Plenty of people are comparing Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring and there's now even a catchy name: the American Autumn. With worldwide attention to the protests growing, the now-hardened ...

AMES, Iowa -- The 2011 anti-government uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa known as the "Arab Spring" captivated the world's attention and changed the region's political landscape. But what ...