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The Arab Spring 15 years later

The pro-democracy movement marked the death knell of Arab nationalism and unintentionally quickened a shift of regional power toward the Gulf States.
Despite mixed results, observers generally praised the Arab Spring as a revolutionary democratic moment for a region long ...
As Tunisia marks the 15th anniversary of the revolution that provoked the Arab Spring, RFI spoke to exiled former leader ...
“Kais Saied’s authoritarian rule has definitively buried the hopes and aspirations of the 2011 revolution by systematically ...
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The Arab Spring’s painful lessons

Fifteen years after the Middle East’s largest pro-democracy movement, the West still has not learned that supporting ...
The Arab Spring is not a completed event but a process that has fundamentally altered the region’s political landscape… but ...
The revolution in Syria began in March 2011 as the Arab Spring brought hope and uncertainty to the Middle East. What started as peaceful protests turned into a violent conflict, as the Assad regime ...
South of Gafsa, the centre of Tunisia’s phosphate industry, there is a half-built road – the construction materials and equipment left to rust by the roadside. The companies responsible for the road ...
Why did Jordan survive the Arab Spring? An account of protests, repression and reforms that helped King Abdullah II contain ...
The ouster of former presidents Omar Al-Bashir in Sudan and Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika in Algeria after a wave of popular protests in both countries has given rise to speculation about the future of these ...
Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh watched his successor sworn in Monday, capping Saleh's three decades at the helm of the Persian Gulf country almost a year after Arab Spring unrest unmoored ...
The Arab Spring began in Tunisia 15 years ago, after a man set fire to himself triggering unrest which toppled the dictator.