The Arab Spring was a wave of protests and uprisings that swept across the Middle East and North Africa starting in 2010, shaking the foundations of long-standing regimes. This video breaks down the ...

Juan Cole tells the backstory of the revolutions in North Africa, exploring events in the context of their cultural setting. His conclusions are optimistic yet grounded in realism. Christians in the ...

A new wave of unrest against governments is sweeping the Middle East. Washington, DC & Beirut, Lebanon -- It's been nearly a decade since a Tunisian street vendor set himself on fire -- an act of ...

Egypt’s president on Monday pardoned a British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist who rose to prominence during the country’s 2011 revolution and has spent more than a decade in prison. Alaa Abdel-Fattah ...