Arab Spring: 10 years on

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Egypt’s former military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi has died aged 85, Egypt’s presidency said.

Taking an award-winning photo helped one Spanish photographer connect with a country rarely seen beyond the stereotypes.

Fatima al-Qaws hugs her wounded son, Zayed, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by anti-government demonstrators in Sanaa, Yemen, on October 15, 2011. This photo won the World Press Photo award in 2012 [File:Samuel Aranda/The New York Times]

Tunisia’s largest parliamentary party faces an existential threat after President Saied assumed executive powers.

Supporters of the Ennada party march with Tunisian flags during a rally in Tunis [File: Hassene Dridi/AP Photo]

Revisiting five months in a hospital that was at the heart of Syria’s rebellion.

In a photo from November 29, 2012, night falls on a rebel-controlled area of Aleppo as destroyed buildings, including Dar Al Shifa hospital, are seen on Sa'ar street after airstrikes had targeted it a week before [Narciso Contreras]

A photojournalist who covered Syria’s civil war tells the story of a young rebel fighter he met.

Ali, a rebel fighter, gestures for victory after firing a shoulder-fired rocket towards a building where Syrian troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad were hiding as they attempted to gain terrain against the rebels during heavy clashes in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria, on November 4, 2012 [Narciso Contreras]

Set in 2053, it follows group of undercover agents plotting to take down hereditary ruler.

The film's creator says it is not inspired by any single Arab country but depicts conditions familiar to many across the world [Joseph Eid/AFP]

But that all changed when government forces fired on peaceful protesters. A Yemeni demonstrator remembers that day.

Children join a protest in Change Square, Sana’a, in August 2014 before president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi left the country [Laura Silvia Battaglia/Al Jazeera]

A decade after the Arab Spring, Westerners’ perceptions of events and Arabs’ perceptions of themselves remain muddled.

Protesters demonstrate against Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunis on January 14, 2011 [File: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]

A photojournalist describes capturing some of the most memorable moments of the war in Libya.

Anti-Gaddafi fighters from Benghazi engage in a firefight with snipers who are loyalists to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi during a street fight in Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, Libya, on October 19, 2011 [Mauricio Lima]

“He carried his son – the same way he had many times before – crossing the hall to the front door, where he crumbled.”

A Syrian man cries while holding the body of his son near Dar Al Shifa Hospital in Aleppo. The boy was killed by the Syrian army [File: Manu Brabo/AP Photo]

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