Arab Spring

Saudi security forces fired live ammunition on unarmed Shia protesters in the kingdom's oil-rich east at dawn on Friday killing one person and...
Friday, January 13, 2012
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Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters marched in Sanaa, Yemen on Friday, as the opposition rejected negotiations with President Ali Abdullah...
Friday, November 18, 2011
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Tareq Aziza
From the moment it started on its journey, beginning in Tunisia and passing through Egypt and other places, it appears as though the train of change...
Friday, November 16, 2012
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Rami Zurayk
In his November 2012 Foreign Policy article, Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek, attempts to answer the question: Who was the victor of the economic...
Sunday, November 4, 2012
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused President Barack Obama on Thursday of seeking to exploit the Arab uprisings for personal political gain, as...
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
In March 2011, a commentator for al-Jazeera wrote: “Events in Egypt and Tunisia have revealed that Arab unity against internal repression is stronger...
Thursday, July 12, 2012
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Joe Dyke
On Friday June 8, thousands of Bahrainis gathered on the outskirts of the capital Manama in what was expected to be another huge protest against...
Friday, July 6, 2012
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An Egyptian court on Tuesday overturned a government decree allowing the army to arrest civilians, a setback for military rulers preparing to hand...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
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Mohammad Khawly
After years spent singing in political events and protests, Ahmad Ismail Al-Sayyed took his oud to Tahrir Square. “Who’s he?” the young men asked...
Friday, June 15, 2012
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