The Arab Spring at Five

How will history look back on what came to be known as the Arab Spring?

Since the ouster of Colonel Muammar Qadaffi in 2011, southern Libya and areas in Chad, just across the border, have turned into an attractive playground for cross...

Saudi Arabia has used money and diplomacy to thwart the rise of Islamists who are committed to political reform and whose reinterpretation of Islamic texts...

Five years after the Arab Spring, Algeria, Africa’s biggest country, has maintained some semblance of stability. But with oil prices falling and Bouteflika in poor...

Among the most optimistic about the Arab Spring were the leaders of Turkey, who saw the upheaval as an opportunity to realize their neo-Ottoman dream of...

Any strategy to tackle ISIS should first aim at bridging Libyan political divides and channeling assistance in a way that promotes cooperation between rival...

The Sisi regime and its counterparts across the region are entering a process of decay, which they will not survive. Simply put, in an increasingly connected and...

Tunisia, the Arab Spring’s lone success story, finds itself seeking to entrench its hard-won democracy at a time when most Tunisians believe that democracy has...

Among the most optimistic about the Arab Spring were the leaders of Turkey, who saw the upheaval as an opportunity to realize their neo-Ottoman dream of...

From the perspective of Sisi and Egypt’s military, the uprising threatened to bring down not only Egypt’s president but its entire social and political order....

Confronted with another social media campaign urging Egyptians to take to the streets on January 25, the president is worried that the kind of popular...