Arab Spring

25 ViZionaries: Amjad Taha - No. 10

A prominent Arab voice supporting Israel-Arab normalization

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Amjad Taha, Arab voice supporting Israel-Arab normalization
A demonstrator holds empty tear gas canisters during a protest over the deteriorating economic situation, in Riad al-Solh Square in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2023. PremiumPremium

The Arab Spring is dead, and a new social contract has replaced it - analysis

Across the Arab world in 2026, ideology is giving way to pragmatism, as publics prioritize stability, security, and economic delivery over reform

|BySAGIV STEINBERG
Dutch Education, Culture and Science Gouke Moes and the Egyptian Ambassador to the Netherlands during the formal handover ceremony of the stolen scultpure at the Egyptian embassy in the Hague, February 8, 2026.

Netherlands returns 3,500-year-old sculpture stolen from Egypt during Arab Spring

Egypt requested that the artifact be returned under the 1970 UNESCO Convention, which both it and the Netherlands are beholden to. 

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Yemeni children play soccer at a displaced persons camp in Marib, Yemen, October 29, 2024.

Yemen’s fractured power struggle deepens its humanitarian, political crisis - opinion

As Yemen fractures between competing power centers, millions face poverty and hunger.

|ByNEVILLE TELLER

America’s “Gospel of Democracy” meets Putin’s Realpolitik: Russia’s return in force to the Middle East

NOVEMBER 29, 2015ByDAVID TURNER
The Jerusalem Post

On the margin

The Palestinian issue is just one of many on the crowded agenda of Mideast governments and nowhere near the top of their priorities.

OCTOBER 29, 2015ByBRUCE MADDY-WEITZMAN
Members and supporters of the Islamist party Hizb Ut-Tahrir rally in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, in support of Palestinians and against Russian and US intervention in Syria, October 16

Radical Islam and the Crusaders- Part 2 of “A Watershed”

OCTOBER 27, 2015ByDAVID TURNER
The Jerusalem Post

My Word: Larger than life

Expect the unexpected. That’s never bad advice.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015ByLIAT COLLINS
Protestors shout slogans as they demonstrate with thousands of others during a rally apposing the nuclear deal with Iran in New York

A direct line from 'Arab Spring' to Islamic State

Expert: Only regional powers such as Turkey or Iran or the West could restore order within a shorter period.

JUNE 30, 2015ByARIEL BEN SOLOMON
Cairo University students shout slogans against the government after the verdict of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's trial

Analysis: The 21st century Middle East

The challenges posed by an unraveling region demand fresh thinking and a new set of policy tools.

JUNE 27, 2015ByUZI RABI
ISIS

The 21st century Middle East

The challenges posed by an unraveling region demand fresh thinking and a new set of policy tools.

JUNE 23, 2015ByUZI RABI
ISIS

Through A Western lens darkly

JUNE 14, 2015ByBOB BROWN
The Jerusalem Post

The Reshaping of the Middle East

MAY 26, 2015ByNEVILLE TELLER
Smoke rises from buildings near the national hospital, after what activists said was shelling by warplanes loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the town of Jisr al-Shughour, Idlib province May 22, 2015

President Strangelove or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

MAY 14, 2015ByDAVID TURNER
The Jerusalem Post