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


Toward an ‘Arab Fall’ in Syria

It seems that the Arab Fall in Syria will be marked by an Iranian presence with tight control over the Syrian economy.

A civil defence member ('White Helmet') runs at a site hit by an airstrike in the rebel held besieged Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria

Grapevine: Do unto others…?

Social news from around the state.

Reuven Rivlin with Inon Haiman

Egypt to offer citizenship to foreigners for $400,000 deposit

It was not immediately clear what economic benefits a foreigner would obtain by acquiring citizenship.

Supporters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Tahrir square after presidential election results in Cairo, Egypt April 2, 2018.

Holidaying in Hurfeish

A round-up of places to visit

AUTHENTIC DRUZE cuisine prepared by Maha Amar

Senseless wars

Perhaps the grim reality of this war is that Syria has lost an entire generation of children, children who have seen nothing but carnage, grief, displacement and human misery.

PROTESTERS CLASH with police in Bahrain during 2011 Arab Spring protests

Voices from the Arab Press: Growing Regional turmoil, threat of war

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

A PALESTINIAN demonstrator returns a tear-gas canister  red by Israeli troops during clashes in Hebron March 2018

Running virtually unopposed, Sisi wins Egypt's low turnout election

Critics say the contest recalled the kind of vote that kept Arab autocrats in power for decades before the 2011 Arab Spring.

People walk in front of banners with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during preparations for the presidential election in Cairo, Egypt

Gaddafi’s son poses as unlikely savior for fractured Libya

The Arab Spring of 2011 is threatening to come full circle.

SAIF AL-ISLAM GADDAFI, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and chairman of the Al Qaddafi International Foundation for Charity and Development, addresses students and staff at the American University in Cairo, in 2010.

Israel isn't the epicenter of the violent storm that engulfs the Mideast

If we look objectively at the reality on the ground, it is not Israel that connects many of the Middle East’s trouble spots.

An airplane flies out of Beirut’s International Airport.

Middle Israel: 7 years later, drawing 4 conclusions from the Arab Spring

Seven years on, though the Arab Upheaval’s inferno is still raging, several conclusions must be drawn already now.

A boy watches as pro-democracy supporters gather in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 18, 2011.