Arab Spring

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

As Yemen fractures between competing power centers, millions face poverty and hunger.

|ByNEVILLE TELLER
Yemeni children play soccer at a displaced persons camp in Marib, Yemen, October 29, 2024.
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

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: From Tunisia to Syria, the uprisings of 2011 showed how revolutions often give way to chaos or renewed authoritarianism, a lesson Jerusalem cannot ignore as Iran convulses.

|ByHERB KEINON
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

The high-profile Abd el-Fattah, 43, spent most of the past decade in prison, and had been on a hunger strike since March 1.

|ByREUTERS
ANGRY YOUTHS gather in central Cairo in 2012, protesting thenEgyptian president Islamist Mohamed Morsi, near Tahrir Square, the heart of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that toppled his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak

'The Great Betrayal': Revolutions rarely succeed in the first attempt - review

Fawaz Gerges makes a compelling case that political and economic reform has been stifled by several mutually reinforcing factors.

|ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER

My Word: Larger than life

Expect the unexpected. That’s never bad advice.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015ByLIAT COLLINS
Protestors shout slogans as they demonstrate with thousands of others during a rally apposing the nuclear deal with Iran in New York

A direct line from 'Arab Spring' to Islamic State

Expert: Only regional powers such as Turkey or Iran or the West could restore order within a shorter period.

JUNE 30, 2015ByARIEL BEN SOLOMON
Cairo University students shout slogans against the government after the verdict of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's trial

Analysis: The 21st century Middle East

The challenges posed by an unraveling region demand fresh thinking and a new set of policy tools.

JUNE 27, 2015ByUZI RABI
ISIS

The 21st century Middle East

The challenges posed by an unraveling region demand fresh thinking and a new set of policy tools.

JUNE 23, 2015ByUZI RABI
ISIS

Through A Western lens darkly

JUNE 14, 2015ByBOB BROWN
The Jerusalem Post

The Reshaping of the Middle East

MAY 26, 2015ByNEVILLE TELLER
Smoke rises from buildings near the national hospital, after what activists said was shelling by warplanes loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the town of Jisr al-Shughour, Idlib province May 22, 2015

President Strangelove or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

MAY 14, 2015ByDAVID TURNER
The Jerusalem Post

Jordanian Columnist: Arab countries have abandoned Jordan, causing it to seek refuge with Israel

APRIL 24, 2015ByDAVID TURNER
The Jerusalem Post

Chaos in Middle East could last for ‘at least a decade,’ expert tells ‘Post’

Saudi rhetoric about Yemen ‘fits logic of sectarian hatred,’ says another • Clerics in kingdom are inciting against Houthis, calling them ‘rats.’

APRIL 22, 2015ByARIEL BEN SOLOMON
SHI’ITE FIGHTERS launch a rocket last month during clashes with Islamic State on the outskirts of al-Alam, Iraq.

The shortcut to deradicalization is the long road

APRIL 20, 2015ByDR. ALON BEN-MEIR
The Jerusalem Post