Across the Arab world in 2026, ideology is giving way to pragmatism, as publics prioritize stability, security, and economic ...

Jon Alterman: Issandr El Amrani is the regional director for the Middle East/North Africa region at the Open Society Foundation. Prior to joining Open Society, Issandr served as the North Africa ...

What was the Arab Spring? It was the optimistic name coined by Western commentators to describe the series of mass protests and popular uprisings in 2011-2012 across many Arab countries, which began ...

The wave of popular protests that swept through North Africa in 2010 and 2011, collectively becoming known as the "Arab Spring", was initially welcomed by many as a positive move towards democracy.

DUBAI, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian bloggers and journalists say the arch-conservative Islamic kingdom will find it hard to douse glimmers of more open reporting despite a tightening of media ...

When 26-year-old fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire 10 years ago this week, he couldn’t have known that his suicide in Tunisia would ignite the entire Middle East and North Africa, ...