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


Seven years later: The Arab Spring's messy endings

Most in the region are not looking back at those momentous events. Instead, they are dealing with the aftereffects.

Men shout slogans during demonstrations on the seventh anniversary of the toppling of president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, in Tunis, Tunisia January 14, 2018

Changing times

Bahrain is a tiny country of around 1.4 million citizens, including a tiny Jewish community.

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (R) speaks to British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) during the first Gulf Cooporative Council's (GCC) " GCC British Summit", in Sakhir Palace Bahrain, December 7, 2016.

End of Yemen's Saleh: 'Shot, wrapped in a blanket and chucked into a pickup'

The end of Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh was quick and brutal, in contrast to his long regime that left Yemen a failed state

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh 311  (R)

Know comment: Fall reading recommendations

Arab democracy is seen as a dangerous luxury, and they prefer “pragmatic” deals with tyrants to defeat violent Islamist extremism.

Palestinian youths slinging rocks 521

Balfour was height of our diplomacy, Oren tells Christian audience

Deputy minister recalls fortune of being alive during State of Israel's existence.

Michael Oren, former ambassador to the US, speaking infront of  Christians United for Israel.

Libyan Jewry - 50 years on... A New Blue Review with David Gerby

The Jerusalem Post

Waging War on Qatar: Is a Third Gulf War Brewing?

The Jerusalem Post

Democracy and ‘America first’

One of the important conditions for a true democracy is a strong and dynamic middle class, and a central condition for the growth of the working class is a strong and liberal market economy.

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump gestures to the press

Can Egypt drive moderate Arab states to talk Mideast peace?

It seems that the only positive element in this situation is the peace treaty with Israel and the sustained security cooperation between the two countries.

Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi

Six years on in north Africa

North Africa remains a region in flux suffering from the same problems that led to the Arab Spring in the first place.

Demonstrators confront police during clashes after Friday prayers in Algiers, January 16