Jon Alterman: Issandr El Amrani is the regional director for the Middle East/North Africa region at the Open Society Foundation. Prior to joining Open Society, Issandr served as the North Africa ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab women played a central role in the Arab Spring, but their hopes the revolts would bring greater freedom and expanded rights for women have been thwarted by entrenched ...

A New Arab Spring?: It is unlikely that Algeria and Sudan are the harbingers of a new set of Arab uprisings sweeping the region, but they are a reminder that seeds of future uprisings have already ...

What was the Arab Spring? It was the optimistic name coined by Western commentators to describe the series of mass protests and popular uprisings in 2011-2012 across many Arab countries, which began ...

The wave of popular protests that swept through North Africa in 2010 and 2011, collectively becoming known as the "Arab Spring", was initially welcomed by many as a positive move towards democracy.

When 26-year-old fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire 10 years ago this week, he couldn’t have known that his suicide in Tunisia would ignite the entire Middle East and North Africa, ...

DUBAI, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian bloggers and journalists say the arch-conservative Islamic kingdom will find it hard to douse glimmers of more open reporting despite a tightening of media ...

Fifteen years after the "Arab Spring", what were the accomplishments in the countries where it erupted but chaos, division and years of nothing? The "Arab Spring" swept Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, ...