From Tunisia to Syria, the uprisings of 2011 showed how revolutions often give way to chaos or renewed authoritarianism, a ...

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Every year on January 14th, Tunisia is marked by a memory that resonates far beyond its borders, casting a shadow across the ...

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 ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Tawakul Karman, who shared a Nobel peace prize for her pro-democracy campaigning in Yemen, has said she views the Egyptian army's overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi as a ...