Arab Spring

The Arab Spring is dead, and a new social contract has replaced it - analysis

Across the Arab world in 2026, ideology is giving way to pragmatism, as publics prioritize stability, security, and economic delivery over reform

A demonstrator holds empty tear gas canisters during a protest over the deteriorating economic situation, in Riad al-Solh Square in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2023. Premium
Dutch Education, Culture and Science Gouke Moes and the Egyptian Ambassador to the Netherlands during the formal handover ceremony of the stolen scultpure at the Egyptian embassy in the Hague, February 8, 2026.

Netherlands returns 3,500-year-old sculpture stolen from Egypt during Arab Spring

Yemeni children play soccer at a displaced persons camp in Marib, Yemen, October 29, 2024.

Yemen’s fractured power struggle deepens its humanitarian, political crisis - opinion

A TUNISIAN expatriate shouts slogans while holding a placard reading ‘Free Tunisia,’ as he demonstrates on January 15, 2011, in Paris.

Protests and power vacuums: What the Arab Spring can teach us about Iran's protests


Six years on in north Africa

North Africa remains a region in flux suffering from the same problems that led to the Arab Spring in the first place.

Demonstrators confront police during clashes after Friday prayers in Algiers, January 16

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What citizens of other countries are reading about the Middle East.

A boy carries goods outside a grocery shop in the rebel-held besieged city of Douma, in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, this week

Qatari Neo-Imperialism--The Real Threat to Middle East Peace

The Jerusalem Post

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What citizens of other countries are reading about the Middle East.

Naftali Bennett

Analysis: Is the next 'Arab Spring' implosion around the corner?

Report of increasing restlessness of young Arabs will surely be on the Israel security establishment’s radar screen.

A Muslim Brotherhood member shouts slogans during an anti-government protest in Cairo

Why is Europe turning a blind eye to Islamic occupation?

National and religious minorities in the Arab region have not been given independence or autonomy; They are still trying to overthrow their Arab-Muslim occupiers.

ISIS TERRORISTS pose on a Libyan beach in February 2015 with 21 captured Egyptian Christians they are about to behead

Part Two: Questions And Answers About Some Of The Raging Events In The Middle East

The Jerusalem Post

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What citizens of other countries are reading about the Middle East.

President Barack Obama during a news conference in the White House. ‘What was the role played by countries like the US in the Arab Spring?’

Is a ‘Moroccan spring’ coming?

The recent protests in Morocco began with a shocking incident that appeared to pit authorities against a poor citizen just trying to make a living.

Protesters take part in a rally after the death of Mouhcine Fikri, a fishmonger who was crushed to death inside a rubbish truck as he tried to retrieve fish confiscated by police, in the northern city of Al Hoceima, October 31, 2016.

Is Gaddafi’s son returning to politics?

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, while hiding in the vast southern Libyan desert, was captured by the powerful Zintan armed militia in November 2011.

SAIF AL-ISLAM GADDAFI, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and chairman of the Al Qaddafi International Foundation for Charity and Development, addresses students and staff at the American University in Cairo, in 2010.