This analysis explores the critical connection between environmental factors and political instability. It details how ...

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Al Jazeera tracked the cost of common food items and compared them with pre-revolution prices in 2010.

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, ...

When Bouazizi, a young Tunisian fruit street vendor, was harshly molested by the police of his country for doing business without a license, he felt humiliated by a repressive regime in his manhood ...

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 ...

Five years after Tunisia became the birthplace of the so-called Arab Spring, analysts say most of the Arab countries that witnessed popular uprisings in 2011 are now worse off. The hopes for a ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Shadi Hamid, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about Tunisia's new constitutional referendum that gives President Kais Saied near total power. This week, ...

MANAMA, Bahrain — Just three miles from the gleaming center of town, a local journalist in a rusted, old compact car swerves around trash dumpsters set on fire to deter police cars from entering the ...

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 ...