Exactly 15 years ago, the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia prompted an unprecedented pan-Arab protest movement that demonstrated the overwhelming Arab desire for more democratic forms ...

When Margot McCormack opened her eponymous restaurant in 2001, East Nashville was hardly a locus of fashionable dining. “On our first birthday,” she says, “we were here all by ourselves, in the glow ...

I’ve been trying to find out who dubbed the Arab uprisings that gripped Egypt and Tunisia the “Arab Spring.” Why did Western countries call the killing of thousands of innocent souls a “spring”? Was ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab women played a central role in the Arab Spring, but their hopes the revolts would bring greater freedom and expanded rights for women have been thwarted by entrenched ...

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 ...

Fifteen years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor whose cart was confiscated by the police, set himself on fire to protest against police harassment and the ...

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