Sudanese women wave Sudanese flags during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, on June 20, 2019. (Reuters / Umit Bektas) Images of popular protests that recall the revolutionary movement of 2011 have ...
Mohammed A. Bamyeh discusses the currents and contradictions within the revolutionary movements sweeping the Arab world, and their ultimate potential. The Arab spring, as far as we can see, appears to ...
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes," Mark Twain once said—and nowhere does it feel more apt than today, as recent upheavals in South Asia echo the Arab Spring that shook North Africa ...
Ten years ago on Thursday, longtime Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was deposed. The Egyptian revolution was the high point of what became known as the Arab Spring, a movement that spread across the ...
Tawakkol Karman, winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, is known as “The Mother of the Revolution” in Yemen, where she was at the forefront of the struggle for human rights and women’s participation in ...