Posts Tagged: Arab Spring
Another ‘Arab Spring’? Is the Mideast Headed for More Unrest?
Protesters in Syria, Bahrain, Libya, Iran, and Israel are dashing autocratic and authoritarian hopes of a prolonged Winter. In response, Arab autocrats are scrambling to squash...
The Egyptian Counter Revolution: 10 Years Later
Islamists' rapid rise to power in the Middle East following the Arab Spring revolutions came to a halt following a popular revolution that swept Egypt...
Sheikh Qaradawi, Islamist Backer of Arab Revolts, Dies at 96
Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, a spiritual guide to the Muslim Brotherhood who championed the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings and unsettled rulers in Egypt and the Gulf...
UAE’s Newly Elected Ruler Sees Iran, Islamists as Threat to Gulf Safe Haven
United Arab Emirates strongman Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, who was formally elected president on Saturday, led a realignment of the Middle East that created...
Looming Moroccan Election Reveals Parliament’s Dimming Sway
When Moroccans elect a new parliament next week, it is likely to be a body with even less influence than its recent predecessors thanks to...
Middle East Reality Welcomes President Biden
JNS.org - Since the seventh century, the Middle East has been one of the most tempestuous epicenters of domestic, regional and global wars and terrorism....
The Arab Spring Created a Consensus Against Middle East Interventions
JNS.org - The tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Arab Spring uprisings has given rise to a deluge of commentary noting the contrast between...
Ten Years Since the Arab Spring
On December 17, 2010, in a small provincial town in Tunisia, a young man named Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest against a...
Algeria’s Referendum: Stirrings of Democracy and the Decline of Islamism
Algeria is physically distant from Israel and not uppermost in Israeli minds. The last headlines featuring Algeria in the Israeli press appeared decades ago, when...
Protesters Push Arab Militaries Off Their Pedestal
Long gone are the days when protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square chanted “the military and the people are one.” In 2011, the protesters managed to...
Mubarak, the ‘Pharaoh’ Toppled by the Arab Spring, Dies at 91
Hosni Mubarak, who died on Tuesday, never expected to be president. But when a very public assassination thrust the former bomber pilot into the job,...
2019 Was Marked by Defiance and Dissent; 2020 Will Probably Be No Different
Last year, protests toppled the leaders of Sudan, Algeria, Lebanon, and Iraq. Only in Sudan did the protests lead to a genuine transition process, and...
Lessons Learned: Arab Protesters Stay One Step Ahead of Rulers
Violent protests have accelerated across the Arab world every day since they re-erupted on October 1. And the evidence suggests that it is the protesters,...
Arab, Russian, and Pakistani Protesters Learn the Lessons of 2011
The recent crackdown in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, in which some 100 people were reportedly killed and hundreds wounded, bears all the hallmarks of the...
