Arab Spring
The Arab Spring is dead, and a new social contract has replaced it - analysis
Across the Arab world in 2026, ideology is giving way to pragmatism, as publics prioritize stability, security, and economic delivery over reform
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Netherlands returns 3,500-year-old sculpture stolen from Egypt during Arab Spring
Yemen’s fractured power struggle deepens its humanitarian, political crisis - opinion
Protests and power vacuums: What the Arab Spring can teach us about Iran's protests
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.
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.
Changing times
Bahrain is a tiny country of around 1.4 million citizens, including a tiny Jewish community.
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
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.
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Deputy minister recalls fortune of being alive during State of Israel's existence.
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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.
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.