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HomeArab Spring

Arab Spring

Egypt Latest News

10 Years After the Arab Spring, Autocrats Still Rule the Mideast: NYT

February 16, 2021 MEO Staff

A decade ago, crowds massed in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Egypt’s American-backed strongman, President Hosni Mubarak. In Washington, President Barack Obama made a fateful decision, calling on him to leave power. [ More … ]

Analysis

The Unfinished Business of Arab Spring: WP

January 27, 2021 MEO Staff

The forces that unleashed uprisings across the Middle East remain as potent as ever, a lengthy report about the Arab Spring in The Washington Post stated. Ten years ago, much of the Arab world erupted [ More … ]

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Tunisia made it again

October 14, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

Kais Saiid is Tunisia new president, He won in the runoff election by landscape The one country you can see the Arab spring still hanging on 75% of voters chose Saiid, a low-profile law professor [ More … ]

Analysis

What’s happening in Sudan?

April 13, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

AFTER THREE DECADES in power, Sudan’s Omar-al-Bashir was ousted following months of protests by the Sudanese. Speaking on State television 2 days ago, Defence Minister Awad Ibnouf announced Bashir had been removed from power and [ More … ]

Algeria

Algeria: Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns after mass protests

April 3, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

Longtime president says he quit to let citizens ‘take Algeria to the better future they aspire to’. Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has resigned with immediate effect, according to state media, ceding power in the face of massive street [ More … ]

Algeria

Will spring come to Algeria?

February 6, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

The presidential elections in Algeria will be held on April 18. 82-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, whose candidacy has been an issue of debate for days, has announced his candidacy to take office for the fifth [ More … ]

Tunisia

Clashes in Tunisia as protests spread over journalist who set himself on fire

December 27, 2018 MEO Staff

Demonstrations in several areas over death of Abderrazk Zorgui who killed himself on Monday in protest over poor living conditions Clashes between protesters and security forces in an impoverished Tunisian city where a journalist burned [ More … ]

Column

The Saudi Regime Does Not Represent Muslims

December 4, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

The Saudi elite uses the veil of religious piety for its own political ends, but the Khashoggi killing has underscored the regime’s complete disconnect from the followers of a great religion. Column By: Yehia HAMID* [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Sisi crushes spirit of Arab Spring in Egypt

November 16, 2018 MEO Staff

Sisi crushes spirit of Arab Spring in Egypt: Activists ‘opened the gates of hell’ Just two years ago, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi celebrated the Egyptian masses who launched the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak, saying [ More … ]

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Arab Spring and anniversary of Egypt’s Jan. 25 Revolution

January 25, 2018 MEO Staff

BY: Yasin Aktay Exactly seven years ago, the Arab world was shaken by the great social movement expressing freedom, democracy and honor generating from the deepest folds of society. The name ‘’Arab Spring’’ was given [ More … ]

Yemen Latest News

Yemen: Houthis ‘declare war’ on ally Ali Abdullah Saleh amid signs of divorce

August 23, 2017 MEO Staff

Tensions between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and their ally deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh have reached boiling point in recent hours threatening to erupt into armed conflict between the two sides Tensions between Yemen’s Houthi rebels [ More … ]

Column

Column: Why attack Al-Jazeera?

August 13, 2017 MEO Staff

BY: EMRE GÖNEN* The world’s news networks have been dominated by four major press agencies since the second half of the 20th century. These are Reuters, Agence France Presse, Associated Press and the United Press International. [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia News

Saudi Arabia defends decision to execute 14 Shia activists

August 7, 2017 MEO Staff

Human-rights activists claim that some of the sentenced men were tortured and forced into making false confessions Saudi Arabia defended its decision to execute more than a dozen Shia activists involved in demonstrations during the [ More … ]

Column

From the Arab Spring toward the continuous coup order on the occasion of the 5th year of the coup in Egypt

July 3, 2017 MEO Staff

BY: Yasin Aktay*  Exactly four years ago, the bloodiest and most savage military coup of the 21st century was perpetrated against Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president in its 4,000-year history. Morsi was sent directly [ More … ]

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Column: Democracy and the Arab axis of tyranny

June 20, 2017 MEO Staff

 BY: Soumaya Ghannoushi* The Qatar-Gulf crisis is a battle rooted in the aborted first wave of the Arab Spring. So far, Arab despots have succeeded in curbing democratic change in the region, but their latest [ More … ]

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