Algerian protesters shout slogans during a protest in Algiers on March 15. (Mohamed Messara/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) The images of mass protests in Arab capitals, where ...
There is a second Arab Spring in the air in North Africa. In Algeria and Sudan, two of the most miserably repressive dictators on the African continent have fallen to popular protests. That sounds ...
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, ...
The coronavirus outbreak is likely to bring into focus the legitimacy and governance deficit of troubled Middle Eastern regimes. By Frederic Wehrey Mr. Wehrey is the author of “The Burning Shores: ...