Over at The Corner, Andrew McCarthy has inaugurated what I suspect will be a long-running series called “Annals of the Arab Spring.” A couple of days ago, Andy dilated on the Egyptian demand that ...

ZAGAZIG, Egypt (Reuters) - When protests erupted in Cairo in 2011, liberal activist Hassan El-Erian quickly mobilised demonstrations in his hometown of Zagazig, risking arrest, or worse, to push for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ousted Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, who ruled his country with an iron fist for nearly three decades, has died at age 91, state media said on Tuesday. Ousted Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, who ...

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 ...

Egyptian activist and writer Adelrahman ElGendy spoke at Wolf Humanities Center on Feb. 15 about his participation in the Arab Spring and subsequent imprisonment in Egypt. ElGendy reflected on his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

With long-standing U.S. allies toppled or under pressure from unprecedented dissent across the Arab world, Michael Doran, in "The Heirs of Nasser" (May/June 2011), warns that Iran is poised to walk ...

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: From Tunisia to Syria, the uprisings of 2011 showed how revolutions often give way to chaos or renewed ...