"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes," Mark Twain once said—and nowhere does it feel more apt than today, as recent upheavals in South Asia echo the Arab Spring that shook North Africa ...

Three years ago, Robin Wright's book, Dreams and Shadows, predicted a "budding culture of change" in the Middle East. In her latest work, Rock the Casbah, she says this year's so-called "Arab Spring" ...

The Arab Spring began in Tunisia, where 28 days of protests ended 24 years of a dictator's rule. The next day, Jan. 15, 2011, students in Yemen called for demonstrations against the strongman there. A ...

Simon Mabon receives funding from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Simon Mabon is a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Centre. As the popular refrain of “ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam” rang out across the ...