Soldiers shed their uniforms and slip away into the crowds. Families, jubilant and tearful, comb the dungeons of the old regime in search of loved ones, or traces of them. Bedraggled young men in ...

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"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 ...

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The past few months have brought despair to millions of Arabs as they’ve watched the rapid and seemingly definitive restoration of an old, dictatorial order throughout a region that was not long ago ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Steven Heydemann, Middle East Studies director at Smith College, about how Syria might avoid replicating Arab countries that are worse off after overthrowing dictators.

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A new wave of unrest against governments is sweeping the Middle East. Washington, DC & Beirut, Lebanon -- It's been nearly a decade since a Tunisian street vendor set himself on fire -- an act of ...

In the spring of 2013, I visited Egypt. It had been two years since the uprisings known as the “Arab Spring” had toppled the government — and in the aftermath, an angry, conservative base ready to ...

REUTERS - Here is a timeline of major events in the Arab Spring in the last year. January 14, 2011 - After days of clashes in Tunisia in which dozens are killed, and having made empty promises of ...

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(Reuters) - Here is a timeline of major events in the Arab Spring in the last year: January 14, 2011 - After days of clashes in Tunisia in which dozens are killed, and having made empty promises of ...