Arab Spring

In this Friday Jan. 20, 2012, file photo, anti-Syrian regime protesters gather at a square as they hold an Arabic banner, center, reading, "Hey, the miserable, the tyrant, what else," during a demonstration at the mountain resort town of Zabadani, Syria.
Critical State
Protest projection: Part 1
Tunisian President Kais Saied delivers a speech during his visit to Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia
Leaders
Some supporters of Tunisia’s president just want stability in the country, analyst says
Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zied, known by his nickname Shawkan, gestures in a soundproof glass cage.
Human rights
10 years after the Arab uprisings, Egypt at ‘lowest point’ for human rights
Tunisian protesters demonstrate beneath a poster of Mohamed Bouazizi near the prime minister's office in Tunis, Tunisia, Jan. 28, 2011.
Global Politics
Fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi’s protest inspired the Arab uprisings. A decade later, his sister still mourns.
A crowd of people celebrate with flashes of red, black and green flags waving in the air.
Conflict
A poem penned during Libya’s 2011 uprising continues to inspire hope
A man walks with a crowd at night with the Egyptian flag behind him.
Global Politics
Bestselling Egyptian author says he’s being sued for ‘insulting’ the government
Arab Spring hopes dashed
Conflict
Egypt’s Mubarak, a symbol of dashed hopes, goes free
Marwah Maasarani and her husband Omar Awad watching Donald Trump's RNC speech in their New Jersey livingroom on Thursday.
Election 2016
Here’s what a Muslim couple in New Jersey made of Donald Trump’s RNC speech
A protester stands in front of a burning barricade during a demonstration in Cairo January 28, 2011.
Conflict
Authors argue it’s too early to label the ‘Arab Spring’ a failure
Riot police fires tear gas at protesters during clashes after a protest against the execution of prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi authorities in village of Sitra south of Manama, Bahrain, January 5, 2016.
Justice
An American reporter speaks out about her detention in Bahrain
People attend a memorial for Giulio Regeni outside the Italian embassy in Cairo, Egypt, February 6, 2016.
Global Politics
Egyptian security forces may have tortured and killed an Italian academic
An anti-government protester gestures during clashes with police in Cairo January 26, 2011.
Global Politics
The Egyptian regime is afraid because the revolution isn’t over
Despite the media spotlight on the refugees, the civil war rages on inside Syria. Here Kurdish fighters take on ISIS.
Conflict
What exactly is going on in Syria?
Music
In exile, Zimo becomes Syria’s pre-eminent Techno artist
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi attending a hearing at the beginning of his trial in 2014. Here he’s seen in a courtroom in Zintan, linked via video to the actual trial in the capital, Tripoli.
Justice
Muammar Gaddafi’s son is sentenced to death in Libya
Congregants at the Zaytuna Mosque in Tunis during the reciting of the Quran.
Belief
Tunisian officials are tired of radicalization from within
Music
For hip-hop artist Omar Offendum, apathy toward Syria is not an option
Hassan, the main character in "The Cow Farm," has no interest in joining the army — but feels that he doesn't have much choice.
Conflict
‘In Syria there is no black and white,’ says this Syrian filmmaker
Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi during his trial at a Cairo court on May 8, 2014. He has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Justice
Egypt’s first democratically elected president becomes a convict
Olive harvest underway
Business
Tunisia looks to tap into its history and push its olive oil front and center
Yemen's former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, pauses during an interview with Reuters in Sanaa on May 21, 2014.
Conflict
The man accused of stealing $60 billion from Yemen is still there and wielding power
A Syrian child who lost both of her parents attends a gathering organized by a charity for orphans in Douma, near Damascus.
Justice
Hope is all but gone in Syria, but some in the country still work for change
Amira Mikhail, an Egyptian-American activist.
Justice
From thousands of miles away, an activist tries to keep change alive in Egypt
Anouar Brahem CD cover
Music
Famed musician was ‘trying to find something new to compose.’ Then the Arab Spring happened.
Protesters hold a sign and photographs of detained Al-Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, an Australian, Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian national, and Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian. The three who were jailed in Cairo on December 29, 2013. Greste was release
Justice
The release of a jailed journalist can’t hide Egypt’s human rights problem
Riot police walk along Mohamed Mahmoud Street, near Cairo's Tahrir Square, in front of murals representing people killed during Egypt's uprising.
Conflict
Four years after a ‘revolution,’ Egypt is back to square one
Conflict
A Yemeni watches from afar — again — as his country erupts in chaos
One of the tokens that "Johns" in Tunisia use to pay prostitutes.
Development
Prostitutes want Tunisia’s red light districts to get back in business
Cairo University students shout slogans against the government and flash the "V" and "Rabaa" signs, protesting the release of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's. Protests erupted at universities across Egypt on November 30, 2014, in response to the
Justice
Egyptians are shocked as former president Hosni Mubarak goes free
Rebel fighters eat in the Damascus suburb of Arbeen October 6, 2014.
Conflict
Some Syrian rebels struggle to separate their real identities and their nom de guerre
A mural showing Gil Scott-Heron and his trademark phrase, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," is the backdrop for protesters marching through the streets of New York in 2012, demanding justice for slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.
Culture
A song title from the ’70s is still a rallying cry for protesters across the world
Syrian volunteer
Education
Turkey faces a daunting challenge in trying to educate hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees
Yamina Jaouani in front of the cab that her daughter helped her buy. She's been driving a taxi in Tunis for nearly 30 years.
Culture
This Tunisian woman supports equal rights for women by driving a cab — something she’s done for 30 years
Reporter Laura Kasinof covering the inauguration of Yemeni President Abdurabbu Mansour Hadi, February 2012.
Conflict
How one woman stumbled into a violent uprising in Yemen
A tweet from Iyad el-Baghdadi, a prominent online activist who's now seeking asylum in Norway.
Conflict
The Arab Spring was no failure, says one activist who refuses to give up
Fireworks mark the third anniversary of the killing of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Conflict
Violence still rules in Libya on the third anniversary of Gaddafi’s death
Men sit near a dead body wrapped in white after what activists said was a barrel bomb was dropped by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo on October 1, 2014.
Conflict
Photos of death and torture in Syria echo past horrors at the Holocaust Museum
A young girl plays on the beach in Tripoli, Libya, where many people have turned to the waterfront to try and find relief from power cuts and political chaos.
Conflict
How Libyans beat the heat — and the turmoil in their country
A man inspects a damaged site in what activists say was a US strike in Kfredrian, Idlib province, Syria, on September 23, 2014.
Conflict
Airstrikes in Syria may help — but their impact will be limited
The passenger terminal at Tripoli's international airport after recent attacks.
Conflict
Three years after its civil war, Libya is on the brink of another
Youth holding Egyptian Flag July 29, 2011
Global Politics
Millennials are on the rise in the Middle East — and bring their own agenda
Armed men aim their weapons from a vehicle as smoke rises in the background near the General National Congress in Tripoli May 18, 2014. Heavily armed gunmen stormed into Libya's parliament on Sunday after attacking the building with anti-aircraft weapons
Conflict & Justice
Libya’s recent rise in violence has the US preparing to evacuate its embassy there
Much of Homs is a devastated and deserted wasteland. This photo is from March.
Conflict & Justice
Rebels surrender most of the key city of Homs in Syria
Much of Homs is a devastated and deserted wasteland. This photo is from March.
Conflict & Justice
Rebels surrender most of the key city of Homs in Syria
"I Too Burned a Police Station" is a Facebook campaign to show solidarity with Tunisian activists still being pursued for crimes committed during the Tunisian revolution.
Conflict & Justice
In Tunisia’s new democracy, authorities are prosecuting the activists who started the revolution
Members of the Tunisian parliament wave flags after approving the country's new constitution.. Tunisia's national assembly approved the country's new constitution on Sunday in one of the final steps to full democracy three years after protests erupted int
Conflict & Justice
Tunisia is succeeding where Egypt failed
Men ride bicycles past damaged buildings along a street in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus, December 2013.
Arts, Culture & Media
Can independent radio journalism broadcast in Syria today?
Conflict & Justice
A Lebanese nun argues the US and others are wrong about Syria and should negotiate peace
Free Syrian Army fighters prepare a locally-made launcher beside Aleppo International Airport.
Conflict & Justice
A businessman, a smuggler and an army defector tell the tale of Syria’s struggle
Global Scan
Iranian dissident cartoonist warns the West about shaking hands too quickly on a nuclear deal
Image of Sisi on chocolate
Global Politics
Egypt’s top military commander gets put on a chocolate pedestal
Global Politics
Three years on, an anonymous Tunisian satirist is still waiting for a political revolution in his country
Arts, Culture & Media
Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli releases ‘Prisoner of Conscious’
Free Syrian Army fighters prepare rockets
Conflict & Justice
Islamist rebels use the faces of martyrs to recruit new ones
Ahmed's father
Conflict & Justice
A Bahraini family keeps their son alive by following in the footsteps that led to his death
Gas station fuel pumps are toppled during protests over fuel subsidy cuts in Khartoum September 25, 2013
Global Politics
Sudanese take to the streets as gas prices double overnight
Conflict & Justice
Turmoil in Tunisia: What the Egypt Crisis Means for the Epicenter of the Arab Spring
Conflict & Justice
The World After the Arab Spring
Arts, Culture & Media
Yara Darwish: ‘Qatar Would Love TV like Al Jazeera America’
Violent Confrontations Continue in Egypt