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

On January 14, 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to resign, after four weeks of revolt in the north ...
Here is a look at Arab Spring, anti-government protests that began in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread throughout the Middle East and Africa in 2011. Algeria January 4, 2011 – Protests begin, ...
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Is Iran headed towards a Persian Spring?

Former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Gordon Gray draws striking parallels between the current 2026 protests in Iran and the 2011 ...
Iran protests have revived the 2011 Arab Spring debate. But what exactly the economic scorecard of countries that saw ...
Long before Libya’s National Museum reopened in 2025, a covert operation in 2011 quietly safeguarded its most precious artefacts from destruction and theft ...
Ms. Kandasamy is an Indian writer, poet and activist. She wrote from Chennai, India. A new visual grammar of resistance is being written across a vast arc of South and Southeast Asia, live-streamed in ...
Every year on January 14th, Tunisia is marked by a memory that resonates far beyond its borders, casting a shadow across the ...
In this short documentary produced in March, Getty Images photographer John Moore describes his work in Egypt, Bahrain, and Libya earlier this spring. Customs seized all his equipment as he was ...
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia’s former autocratic president whose extravagant life and oppressive rule inspired the first Arab Spring revolts of 2011, died Thursday in exile in Saudi Arabia. He was ...