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Arab Uprisings

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 protester uses his sandal to beat a picture of Egypt's then-President Mohammed Morsi in Tahrir square in Cairo on June 28, 2013.
Global Politics
Some Egyptians are comparing Trump to an unlikely, Islamist figure
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
"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