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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 Arab Spring is not a completed event but a process that has fundamentally altered the region’s political landscape… but ...

When the Syrian revolution began back in 2011, the country was not alone. Syrians joined a wave of uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa. The movement started in Tunisia, with the death of ...

Around 2,500 Tunisians marched through the coastal city of Gabes on Wednesday, reviving protests over pollution from a ...

Morocco's February 20 protest movement played a key role in pushing reforms this year but it missed the Arab Spring slipstream and the king awaits Friday's polls untroubled by their boycott call.

Iran's opposition Green Movement called for Iranians to take to the streets this month as the country marks the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Iran's Green Voice of Freedom reported.

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, ...