Why did Jordan survive the Arab Spring? An account of protests, repression and reforms that helped King Abdullah II contain ...

"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 ...

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.

Tunisians voted Sunday in an election expected to grant President Kais Saied a second term, as his most prominent detractors, including one of the candidates challenging him, are in prison. The ...

I know and have co-authored with people who wrote some of the studies that are linked to in this article. The fall of Bashar Assad’s dictatorship in December 2024 has ushered in a nerve-wracking time ...

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 ...

(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 ...