"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 ...
On the 10th anniversary of the 2013 coup in Egypt when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed the country’s first democratically elected president from power, we speak with author Shadi Hamid about ...
A significant Middle East anniversary passed this week with hardly anyone noticing. On January 14, 2011, Tunisia’s autocratic leader, president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, abruptly and unceremoniously ...