Despite mixed results, observers generally praised the Arab Spring as a revolutionary democratic moment for a region long ...
On December 17, 2010, Tunisian vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, triggering protests across the Arab world.
The Arab Spring is not a completed event but a process that has fundamentally altered the region’s political landscape… but ...
Just over a decade ago, unrelated meltdowns by a CNBC reporter and a Tunisian street vendor set two vehicles moving in opposite directions. The vendor, Tarek al Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire, ...
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The Arab Spring 15 years later

The pro-democracy movement marked the death knell of Arab nationalism and unintentionally quickened a shift of regional power toward the Gulf States.
When the Syrian revolution began back in 2011, the country was not alone. Syrians joined a wave of uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa. The movement started in Tunisia, with the death of ...
An Egyptian protester holds his national flag as he shouts slogans against President Hosni Mubarak at Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011. Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images Ten years on, the lives of people in ...
Morocco's February 20 protest movement played a key role in pushing reforms this year but it missed the Arab Spring slipstream and the king awaits Friday's polls untroubled by their boycott call.
The Arab Spring protest movement took the Middle East and North Africa by storm 10 years ago, sparked in part by the Jan. 4, 2011 death of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi, who had set himself ...
Iran's opposition Green Movement called for Iranians to take to the streets this month as the country marks the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Iran's Green Voice of Freedom reported.