Arab Spring: 10 years on

Egypt’s President el-Sisi to run for third term, opposition decry pressure
Civil society group says citizens trying to nominate candidates to stand against el-Sisi face harassment.
Published On 3 Oct 2023
Tunisian police arrest two top officials in Ennahda opposition party
Ennahda interim head Mondher Ounissi and Abdel Karim Harouni, leader of the party’s Shura Council, have been arrested.
Published On 6 Sep 2023
‘Slow murder’: Hundreds of prisoners stage Bahrain’s largest hunger strike
Advocates say that prisoners are protesting against dire conditions – and that the government’s reforms are not enough.
Published On 28 Aug 2023
Tunisian judge frees two leading opponents of President Saied
Chaima Issa and Lazhar Akremi released nearly 5 months after arrest for allegedly conspiring against state security.
Published On 14 Jul 2023

2021 marked a decade since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, with violence and economic hardship still rife.

Egypt sentences Abdel Fattah, a leading figure in the 2011 revolution, to jail with two others for speaking ‘fake news’.

President says anniversary to mark the beginning of the uprising, rather than the deposing of former dictator Ben Ali.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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