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" ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Fifteen years after the Middle East’s largest pro-democracy movement, the West still has not learned that supporting autocracy is no longer sustainable. The Arab Spring carries multiple meanings for ...