Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A TUNISIAN expatriate shouts slogans while holding a placard reading ‘Free Tunisia,’ as he demonstrates on January 15, 2011, in ...

Juan Cole tells the backstory of the revolutions in North Africa, exploring events in the context of their cultural setting. His conclusions are optimistic yet grounded in realism. Christians in the ...

Fifteen years after the Middle East’s largest pro-democracy movement, the West still has not learned that supporting autocracy is no longer sustainable. The Arab Spring carries multiple meanings for ...

With long-standing U.S. allies toppled or under pressure from unprecedented dissent across the Arab world, Michael Doran, in "The Heirs of Nasser" (May/June 2011), warns that Iran is poised to walk ...

There are few better ways to gauge the Arab Spring’s bitter ideological divisions than to visit this country’s two most powerful men. On the one end of Tunis, the secular, liberal President Moncef ...

A significant Middle East anniversary passed this week with hardly anyone noticing. On January 14, 2011, Tunisia’s autocratic leader, president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, abruptly and unceremoniously ...