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.

CAIRO — The two brothers were the nearest they had been in years, a 20-minute drive apart. Mohamed Shobeir had been eager to join the protest outside United Nations headquarters in New York against ...

LONDON (AP) — The Egyptians who took to the streets on Jan. 25, 2011, knew what they were doing. They knew they risked arrest and worse. But as their numbers swelled in Cairo's central Tahrir Square, ...

More than two years after the Arab Spring, the Middle East has descended into a chilly fall. More than two years after the Arab Spring, the Middle East has descended into a chilly fall. Early success ...

Fifteen years after the Middle East’s largest pro-democracy movement, the West still has not learned that supporting ...

The pro-democracy movement marked the death knell of Arab nationalism and unintentionally quickened a shift of regional power toward the Gulf States.

As Tunisia marks the 15th anniversary of the revolution that provoked the Arab Spring, RFI spoke to exiled former leader ...

Correction appended: Aug. 25, 2013, 7:27 p.m. E.T. While violence rages in Cairo, the dysfunctional center of the Arab Spring, another unresolved conflict from that season of unrest in the region is ...

Polarization lurks behind many of the political crises that define the current global moment. When political parties and their partisans disdain and disagree with each other, the discord can preclude ...