On December 17, 2010, Tunisian vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, triggering protests across the Arab world.

Sudanese women wave Sudanese flags during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, on June 20, 2019. (Reuters / Umit Bektas) Images of popular protests that recall the revolutionary movement of 2011 have ...

The pro-democracy movement marked the death knell of Arab nationalism and unintentionally quickened a shift of regional power toward the Gulf States.

Despite mixed results, observers generally praised the Arab Spring as a revolutionary democratic moment for a region long ...

As Tunisia marks the 15th anniversary of the revolution that provoked the Arab Spring, RFI spoke to exiled former leader ...

Only in one Arab country, Tunisia, did 2011’s Arab Spring achieve any semblance of success. The four other Middle Eastern and North African nations whose uprisings aimed to bring down their leaders ...

It comes as no surprise that the discontentment felt by many in the Arab world is reflected in this year’s Corruption Perceptions Index. Most countries affected by the “Arab Spring” score poorly, in ...

China’s inroads in the Middle East demonstrate how the region is still a critical front in the era of US-China competition.

An Egyptian protester holds his national flag as he shouts slogans against President Hosni Mubarak at Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011. Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images Ten years on, the lives of people in ...

The storming of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump supporters led to the #AmericanSpring Twitter hashtag trending across the Middle East, referencing popular uprisings in 2011 which upended decades-old ...

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 ...

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 ...