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

|BySAGIV STEINBERG
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

Egypt requested that the artifact be returned under the 1970 UNESCO Convention, which both it and the Netherlands are beholden to. 

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
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

As Yemen fractures between competing power centers, millions face poverty and hunger.

|ByNEVILLE TELLER
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

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: From Tunisia to Syria, the uprisings of 2011 showed how revolutions often give way to chaos or renewed authoritarianism, a lesson Jerusalem cannot ignore as Iran convulses.

|ByHERB KEINON

A Movement To End The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

JULY 14, 2016ByDR. ALON BEN-MEIR
The Jerusalem Post

Will Assad survive?

MAY 10, 2016ByNEVILLE TELLER
The Jerusalem Post

Senator Leiberman weighs in on America’s retreat from the Middle East, and global responsibilities

FEBRUARY 26, 2016ByDAVID TURNER
The Jerusalem Post

Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office indicts 16-year-old Arab girl for attempted murder

East Jerusalem teen attacked Border Police officer stationed at Damascus Gate with kitchen knife.

FEBRUARY 17, 2016ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
The knife used in a stabbing attack near Damascus Gate.

IDF unit shoots dead 2 West Bank terrorists in exchange of fire

The incident began when an IDF lookout position spotted two Palestinian hurling rocks near the security fence located north of Jenin, in the area of Arake village.

FEBRUARY 14, 2016ByYAAKOV LAPPIN
Security forces at a checkpoint near Jenin

Is this Palestine's Arab Spring?

JANUARY 2, 2016ByDAVID ALLOUCHE
The Jerusalem Post

Lowering the bar

Arab Israelis remain destined to play the role of usual suspects forever called on to prove their allegiance to Israel.

DECEMBER 28, 2015ByILAN MANOR
An Israeli Arab casts her ballot at a polling station inside a church in the northern town of Reineh

Five years later: How the US and EU failed the Arab Spring

Analysis on the debate surrounding the Arab revolts tends to center on basic human nature.

DECEMBER 20, 2015ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
People stand on a bridge overlooking the river Nile as many Egyptians walk on the streets with Egyptian flags in Cairo

‘Arab Spring and Iranian threat have opened way for improved Arab-Israel relations’

Jordanian think tank: No fear of Islamic State in kingdom.

DECEMBER 10, 2015ByARIEL BEN SOLOMON
A MILITARY truck carrying a missile and a picture of Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei drives in a parade marking the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war in Tehran

America’s “Gospel of Democracy” meets Putin’s Realpolitik: Russia’s return in force to the Middle East

NOVEMBER 29, 2015ByDAVID TURNER
The Jerusalem Post