Arab Spring

Netherlands returns 3,500-year-old sculpture stolen from Egypt during Arab Spring

Egypt requested that the artifact be returned under the 1970 UNESCO Convention, which both it and the Netherlands are beholden to. 

Dutch Education, Culture and Science Gouke Moes and the Egyptian Ambassador to the Netherlands during the formal handover ceremony of the stolen scultpure at the Egyptian embassy in the Hague, February 8, 2026.
Yemeni children play soccer at a displaced persons camp in Marib, Yemen, October 29, 2024.

Yemen’s fractured power struggle deepens its humanitarian, political crisis - opinion

A TUNISIAN expatriate shouts slogans while holding a placard reading ‘Free Tunisia,’ as he demonstrates on January 15, 2011, in Paris.

Protests and power vacuums: What the Arab Spring can teach us about Iran's protests

President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends the 34th Arab League summit, in Baghdad, Iraq, May 17, 2025; illustrative.

Egyptian President Sisi issues orders to study a possible pardon for activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah


Are the US racial protests similar to the Arab Spring?

The US case was a human rights issue, which aimed at social reforms, whereas in Tunisia, for instance, the uprising in 2011 demanded political, economic and social change.

PROTESTERS CLASH with police in Bahrain during 2011 Arab Spring protests

Facebook’s oversight board should defend liberal values - opinion

Giving a Muslim Brotherhood supporter the ability to decide what is permitted on Facebook’s is a step in the wrong direction, and not only for Jews and for Muslims opposed to the Brotherhood.

Facebook symbol

Egypt extends the detention of Coptic activist by 15 days.

The activist was told that if he wishes to be released, he must stop writing about violations of freedom of religion or belief in Egypt.

Small groups of protesters gather in central Cairo shouting anti-government slogans in Cairo, Egypt September 21, 2019

Arab League wary of Turkish, Iranian threats

The Arab League Secretary General is increasingly concerned over growing Iranian and Turkish dominance of the region.

PROTESTERS CLASH with police in Bahrain during 2011 Arab Spring protests

Journalist Souad Mekhennet awarded International Leadership Award

While working for the Post, Mekhennet has written about the rise of extremism and terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda and ISIS in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Souad Mekhennet, Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

‘Arab Spring will spread to Palestinian territories’

“It is certain the current - or next - wave of the Arab Spring will arrive sooner or later to Palestine.”

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses Arab journalists in Ramallah on July 3

Nasrallah: Hezbollah does not support gov’t resignation, ‘time is short’

“When the government takes measures that restore people's trust, the Lebanese people will accept,” Hezbollah-run news website Al-Ahed tweeted him as saying.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters during a public appearance at a religious procession

Election monitor describes Tunisia’s elections and hope for future

‘There are only so many times a population relishes the idea of going to vote’

Election workers take ballots from a polling station in Tunisia

Who is responsible for the Arab Spring? Fatah officials blame US

The Palestinian Media Watch watchdog organization highlighted in a report several recent instances in which Fatah officials blame the US - and in some cases Israel - for weakening the Arab states.

Fatah official speaks on Palestinian TV

Morsi and the Middle East: In death the symbol of division - analysis

Morsi was sworn in on June 30, 2012. He spent one year in power.

Ex-President Mohammad Morsi seen through prison bars in 2016