Arab Spring

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
Yemeni children play soccer at a displaced persons camp in Marib, Yemen, October 29, 2024.
A TUNISIAN expatriate shouts slogans while holding a placard reading ‘Free Tunisia,’ as he demonstrates on January 15, 2011, in Paris.

Protests and power vacuums: What the Arab Spring can teach us about Iran's protests

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: From Tunisia to Syria, the uprisings of 2011 showed how revolutions often give way to chaos or renewed authoritarianism, a lesson Jerusalem cannot ignore as Iran convulses.

|ByHERB KEINON
President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends the 34th Arab League summit, in Baghdad, Iraq, May 17, 2025; illustrative.

Egyptian President Sisi issues orders to study a possible pardon for activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah

The high-profile Abd el-Fattah, 43, spent most of the past decade in prison, and had been on a hunger strike since March 1.

|ByREUTERS
ANGRY YOUTHS gather in central Cairo in 2012, protesting thenEgyptian president Islamist Mohamed Morsi, near Tahrir Square, the heart of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that toppled his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak

'The Great Betrayal': Revolutions rarely succeed in the first attempt - review

Fawaz Gerges makes a compelling case that political and economic reform has been stifled by several mutually reinforcing factors.

|ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER

Qatari Neo-Imperialism--The Real Threat to Middle East Peace

FEBRUARY 10, 2017ByDMITRI SHUFUTINSKY
The Jerusalem Post

Hot off the Arab press

What citizens of other countries are reading about the Middle East.

DECEMBER 8, 2016ByCOMPILEDTHE MEDIA LINE
Naftali Bennett

Analysis: Is the next 'Arab Spring' implosion around the corner?

Report of increasing restlessness of young Arabs will surely be on the Israel security establishment’s radar screen.

DECEMBER 1, 2016ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
A Muslim Brotherhood member shouts slogans during an anti-government protest in Cairo

Why is Europe turning a blind eye to Islamic occupation?

National and religious minorities in the Arab region have not been given independence or autonomy; They are still trying to overthrow their Arab-Muslim occupiers.

NOVEMBER 26, 2016ByZVI MAZEL
ISIS TERRORISTS pose on a Libyan beach in February 2015 with 21 captured Egyptian Christians they are about to behead

Part Two: Questions And Answers About Some Of The Raging Events In The Middle East

NOVEMBER 22, 2016ByDR. ALON BEN-MEIR
The Jerusalem Post

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What citizens of other countries are reading about the Middle East.

NOVEMBER 17, 2016ByCOMPILEDTHE MEDIA LINE
President Barack Obama during a news conference in the White House. ‘What was the role played by countries like the US in the Arab Spring?’

Is a ‘Moroccan spring’ coming?

The recent protests in Morocco began with a shocking incident that appeared to pit authorities against a poor citizen just trying to make a living.

NOVEMBER 2, 2016ByBEN LYNFIELD
Protesters take part in a rally after the death of Mouhcine Fikri, a fishmonger who was crushed to death inside a rubbish truck as he tried to retrieve fish confiscated by police, in the northern city of Al Hoceima, October 31, 2016.

Is Gaddafi’s son returning to politics?

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, while hiding in the vast southern Libyan desert, was captured by the powerful Zintan armed militia in November 2011.

JULY 27, 2016ByARIEL BEN SOLOMON
SAIF AL-ISLAM GADDAFI, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and chairman of the Al Qaddafi International Foundation for Charity and Development, addresses students and staff at the American University in Cairo, in 2010.

A Movement To End The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

JULY 14, 2016ByDR. ALON BEN-MEIR
The Jerusalem Post

Will Assad survive?

MAY 10, 2016ByNEVILLE TELLER
The Jerusalem Post