It's been 10 years since Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak was forced from power by millions of protesters. It’s considered one of the high points of what was then called the "Arab Spring." And we were ...

Khalil Shikaki is the world’s foremost pollster and interpreter of Palestinian public opinion. A senior fellow of Brandeis’ Crown Center for Middle East Research, he has directed the Ramallah-based ...

1 in 3 people in Middle East, North Africa say they've paid a bribe in last year 61% believe corruption has increased, 15% think corruption has decreased Five years after the Arab Spring revolution ...

More than a protest, it was a revolution that swept across the Arab world, powered by the pent-up anger of millions who were suddenly no longer afraid. A year of protests began on December 17, 2010, ...

Marc Lynch, The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East (PublicAffairs, 2016). On May 19, 2011, President Barack Obama stood in the ornate Ben Franklin Room on the State Department’s 8 ...

Editorial Page Writer Sohrab Ahmari marks the fifth anniversary of the movement that swept the Middle East. Photo credit: 3arabwy. Thursday marks a bitter anniversary in the Arab world. On Dec. 17, ...

Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. The civil rights leader helped drag this nation out of the shadow of its most Walter Scott’s Murder And The Unfulfilled ...