"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes," Mark Twain once said—and nowhere does it feel more apt than today, as recent upheavals in South Asia echo the Arab Spring that shook North Africa ...
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 ...
DUBAI/TUNIS (Reuters) - The armed forces of Algeria and Sudan, which pushed out the long-serving rulers of those countries after mass protests, are following a script that has failed millions of Arabs ...
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 ...
LONDON (Reuters) - After the "Arab Spring" and unrest in Europe, New York's "Occupy Wall Street" movement may be the latest sign of a global, popular backlash against elites with increasingly shared ...
When Moncef Marzouki, a former dissident transformed by the Arab Spring into Tunisia’s president, paid an official visit to Algeria on Sunday last week, red and white Tunisian flags flew from ...