The Syrian crucible
Can a new Middle East be fashioned from the ruins of the Assad regime?
ByArab Spring
Niger’s crisis belongs to the West
If you want to explain this coup, look to Paris, not just Moscow.
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How the dream of the Arab Spring died
A decade after revolutions spread across North Africa and the Middle East, the hopes of a generation have been crushed.
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From the NS archive: How the economic policies of a corrupt elite caused the Arab Spring
7 June 2011: Living standards in the region must rise if the political momentum is to be kept up.
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Mohamed Bouazizi: the faded icon of Tunisia’s Arab Spring
How a death that sparked an uprising has come to represent ambiguous feelings about change.
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In the Arab Spring, revolution was made by everyday people
Sophie McBain reviews Jonathan Littell’s Syrian Notebooks and Voices of the Arab Spring by Asaad al-Saleh.
ByWomen and the Arab Spring
Hopes for freedom in Egypt remain unfulfilled.
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Voice of the Arab spring: Mehdi Hasan on Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera is an enigma – although owned by an absolute monarch, it’s hailed as an independent voice.
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