Arab Spring

A large crowd gathers at Sadallah al-Jabiri square to celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad's 24-year autocratic regime. Photo: Reuters
Panorama

Will an Assad-free Syria end up in an Arab winter?

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FILE PHOTO: A man holds an Egyptian flag during a rally at Tahrir Square, in Cairo February 25, 2011. Egypt's new military rulers, promising to guard against "counter-revolution", faced political pressure on Friday to purge the cabinet of ministers appointed by Hosni Mubarak as thousands of protesters gathered in Cairo. REUTERS/Peter Andrews/File Photo
World+Biz

What is the Arab Spring, and how did it start?

Political and ideological divides in Egypt created the situation for a military coup in 2013. Photo: Reuters
Thoughts

Guarding a revolution is harder than achieving it

In this photo released on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, by Suwayda24, people stage a protest as they wave the Druze flags in the southern city of Sweida, Syria. Anti-government protests have rocked south Syria for the past week. Demonstrators initially took to the streets over surging inflation but are now calling for the ouster of President Bashar Assad, echoing the beginnings of a 2011 uprising that sparked Syria's brutal civil war. (Suwayda24 via AP)
Middle East

Syria protests spurred by economic misery stir memories of the 2011 anti-government uprising

Arab countries have made the end of the Arab Spring official by welcoming Assad back to the league. Photo: Reuters
Panorama

Assad is back in business. Where art thou Arab Spring?

Photo: Reuters
FIFA World Cup 2022

Moroccan ecstasy at World Cup win shared by Africa and Arab world

Photo: AFP
FIFA World Cup 2022

Whole of Africa behind Morocco: Walid Regragui

Photo: AFP
FIFA World Cup 2022

Arab world rejoices as Morocco reaches first-ever World Cup quarter-final

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Sports

Arab Spring is back again - Morocco marauds past blunt Belgium

An anti-government protester is carried by fellow protesters as he shouts slogans during a rally to demand for the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside Sanaa University March 7, 2011. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/File Photo
Politics

Timeline: Ten years from uprising, Yemen lies fractured and hungry

A woman and her daughters sit outside their tent at a camp for internally displaced people near Sanaa, Yemen, August 15, 2016/ Reuters
World+Biz

Yemen 'Arab Spring' unity torn asunder by hunger and war

German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses for a selfie with Anas Modamani, a refugee from Syria, after she visited the AWO Refugium Askanierring shelter for migrants and refugees on Sept. 10, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Photo: Foreign Policy/Getty Images
Panorama

The Arab spring changed everything—in Europe

A girl walks past a memorial for Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor who set himself alight 10 years ago on December 17, 2010, in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia December 8, 2020. Graffiti reads: "The people want". Picture taken December 8, 2020. REUTERS/Angus McDowall
World+Biz

Ten years on, anger grows in Tunisian town where 'Arab Spring' began