Despite mixed results, observers generally praised the Arab Spring as a revolutionary democratic moment for a region long ...

The uprisings did not collapse into irrelevance. They transformed how millions understood citizenship and dignity.

Sudanese women wave Sudanese flags during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, on June 20, 2019. (Reuters / Umit Bektas) Images of popular protests that recall the revolutionary movement of 2011 have ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Shadi Hamid, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about Tunisia's new constitutional referendum that gives President Kais Saied near total power. This week, ...

There is a fundamental sickness in liberal foreign policy. So argues John Rossomando, an analyst at the Washington-based think tank for The Center for Security Policy and a former researcher for the ...

A Saudi airstrike on a UAE-linked shipment in Yemen marked the most significant growing rivalry between former allies. From ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. It only took one decade. Ten years ago this month, democratic movements, ...

China’s inroads in the Middle East demonstrate how the region is still a critical front in the era of US-China competition.

A decade on, the memory of the Arab Spring sparks ambiguous feelings in the Middle East and Europe. The European public excitement concerning the uprisings from Tunisia to Syria is long gone. Along ...

More than eight years ago, millions of Arab citizens tuned to Al-Jazeera as it delivered round-the-clock coverage of the “Arab Spring” revolutions. For the first time, it seemed, people were taking ...

Wheat prices are rising worldwide. Especially hard hit are the Middle East and North Africa, which rely heavily on wheat imported from Russia and Ukraine. Wheat, however, is not the only food staple ...

John Rossomando, The Arab Spring Ruse: How the Muslim Brotherhood Duped Washington in Libya and Syria (Washington, DC: The Center for Security Policy, 2021), pp. 128. There is a fundamental sickness ...