The Arab Spring has given way to a winter of economic stagnation and violence that has plunged Syria, Libya and Yemen into civil war. On December 17, 2010, a street vendor in Tunis, named Mohammed ...

Khalil Shikaki is the world’s foremost pollster and interpreter of Palestinian public opinion. A senior fellow of Brandeis’ Crown Center for Middle East Research, he has directed the Ramallah-based ...

Marc Lynch, The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East (PublicAffairs, 2016). On May 19, 2011, President Barack Obama stood in the ornate Ben Franklin Room on the State Department’s 8 ...

More than a protest, it was a revolution that swept across the Arab world, powered by the pent-up anger of millions who were suddenly no longer afraid. A year of protests began on December 17, 2010, ...

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: From Tunisia to Syria, the uprisings of 2011 showed how revolutions often give way to chaos or renewed authoritarianism, a lesson Jerusalem cannot ignore as Iran convulses. A ...

Five years after the Arab Spring revolution brought citizens into the streets to demonstrate against government corruption and other issues, how much has really changed? New governments were ushered ...

Throughout 2011, a rhythmic chant echoed across the Arab lands: "The people want to topple the regime." It skipped borders with ease, carried in newspapers and magazines, on Twitter and Facebook, on ...

Judging by economic data alone, the revolutions of the 2011 Arab Spring should have never happened. The numbers from the decades before had told a glowing story: the region had been making steady ...

Read and hear stories from the Morning Edition series, The Arab Spring: One Year Later. The demonstrations that spread across the Middle East in 2011 unseated leaders in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.

Editorial Page Writer Sohrab Ahmari marks the fifth anniversary of the movement that swept the Middle East. Photo credit: 3arabwy. Thursday marks a bitter anniversary in the Arab world. On Dec. 17, ...