The Arab Spring started in December 2010 with protests against the president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Ben Ali had been in power since a coup d’etat in 1987.

But Tunisia was supposed to be different. At the vanguard of the so-called Arab Spring — pro-democracy uprisings that flared across the Arab world in 2011 — it was among the first countries to ...

The leaders of Bahrain, Libya, Syria and Yemen are facing challenges to their authority from within ... Arab Spring: Four Leaders Struggling to Stay in Power World. Jun 3, 2011 5:11 PM EST ...

As this column argued on the upheaval’s seventh anniversary (“The real Arab Spring,” January 27, 2018) the economic decay and social despair that caused it could have been prevented had Arab ...

Demystifying the Arab Spring Parsing the Differences Between Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya Lisa Anderson May/June 2011 Published on June 1, 2011 . ... In Libya, provincial leaders worked feverishly to ...

Data: Status from Freedom House Global Freedom Scores; Table: Axios Visuals Bashar al-Assad fled Syria more than 13 years after an uprising against him began during the Arab Spring. The big ...

One Year Later, Arab Spring Still Reverberating The demonstrations that spread across the Middle East in 2011 unseated leaders in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Yemen's president has agreed to step ...

In their statement, to be issued formally after the two-day summit in the northern resort of Deauville, G8 leaders signalled they "strongly support the aspirations of the Arab Spring as well as ...

Middle East; Popular Protests Rattle Arab Leaders Demonstrators stay united and focus on reforms to avoid the pitfalls that turned 2011 Arab Spring revolts into intractable civil wars ...

1. Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech helped inspire the Arab Spring. Nothing could be further from the truth. By the time of these rebellions, the Arab and Muslim romance with President Obama had long ...

Gordon Wood talked about lessons that might be drawn from the American Revolution by leaders of the Arab Spring. In 2013, Mr. Wood gave a talk to 30 Egyptian leaders about the American Revolution ...