In the spring of 2013, I visited Egypt. It had been two years since the uprisings known as the “Arab Spring” had toppled the government — and in the aftermath, an angry, conservative base ready to ...
Exactly 15 years ago, the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia prompted an unprecedented pan-Arab protest movement that demonstrated the overwhelming Arab desire for more democratic forms ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years have passed since the Arab Spring protests erupted in Egypt. Inspired by the successful uprising in Tunisia just 11 ...
Egypt’s authoritarian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has pardoned nearly three dozen political prisoners, including a leader of the Arab Spring uprising that ousted then-President Hosni Mubarak in ...
CAIRO — Hosni Mubarak, the former autocratic president of Egypt, whose hold on power was broken and place in history upended by a public uprising against the poverty, corruption and repressive police ...
Following the revolution that ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year, the country's economy is sagging — tourism has plummeted, unemployment is soaring and poverty is spreading. In ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dutch Education, Culture and Science Gouke Moes and the Egyptian Ambassador to the Netherlands during the formal handover ceremony ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians began voting on Monday in an election set to give President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a former armed forces commander, a second four-year term. Polls will be open for three ...
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Correction appended: Aug. 25, 2013, 7:27 p.m. E.T. While violence rages in Cairo, the dysfunctional center of the Arab Spring, another unresolved conflict from that season of unrest in the region is ...