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

The Arab Spring has ended in total ruin. I don’t just mean that it has failed to deliver the freedoms for which its authors hoped in 2011. I mean, it has, from a very low base, made life even worse in ...

It was 15 years ago… An important wave of struggles has been flowing across Maghreb and Mashrek. One after another, Tunisia, ...

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 ...

The popular uprisings across the Arab world that began more than two and a half years ago transformed the politics of the region and ousted four entrenched leaders. But news that an Egyptian court has ...

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 ...

When President Obama stepped into the State Department on May 19 to deliver his long-awaited speech on the Middle East, he did so amid fears that the Arab Spring was devolving into a Summer of ...

The past few months have brought despair to millions of Arabs as they’ve watched the rapid and seemingly definitive restoration of an old, dictatorial order throughout a region that was not long ago ...

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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Shadi Hamid, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about Tunisia's new constitutional referendum that gives President Kais Saied near total power. This week, ...