Arab Spring

A Bahraini girl holds up a placard bearing a portrait of jailed human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and reading in Arabic "Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, will and determination, hunger strike" during an anti-government protest in the village of Jannusan, west of the capital Manama, on September 5, 2014.
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Bahrain activist launches hunger strike in prison over detention

Bahraini activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja has begun an open-ended hunger strike to protest his detention, 13 years after Bahrain’s Arab Spring uprising.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 October, 2025
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16 October, 2025
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Lebanon is Burning: Yazan al-Saadi's defiant graphic dispatches

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Sarah Khalil

10 September, 2025
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The story of Tunisia’s skatepark built from an abandoned mansion

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Amelia Dhuga

29 May, 2025
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Emel Mathlouthi on pushing feminism to the forefront of music

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Yousra Samir Imran

02 May, 2025
To understand al-Sharaa's Syria, listen to echoes of Arab Spring
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To understand al-Sharaa's Syria, listen to echoes of Arab Spring

Amr Salahi

Amr Salahi

11 April, 2025
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Erasing the revolutionary identity of Egypt's Tahrir Square

Shaimaa Elhadidy
23 January, 2025
After Qaradawi case, no Arab league state is safe for dissidents
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After Qaradawi case, no Arab League state is safe for dissidents

Inès Osman

Inès Osman

21 January, 2025
The Assad dynasty has failed the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Their fall is an opportunity to rebuild commitment to the cause
Post-Assad Syria
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How the 1973 war with Israel began the Assads' war on Syrians

Jad Baghdadi

Jad Baghdadi

30 December, 2024
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Alaa Abdel Fattah
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Alaa Abdel Fattah's mother passes 80 days of hunger strike in UK

Rabeea Eid
19 December, 2024
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Salt Journals: Tunisia’s political imprisonment, told by women

Saliha Haddad

Saliha Haddad

18 December, 2024
Syria wakes up from its Assadist nightmare. But what comes next?
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Why do some Leftists support the brutality of the Syrian regime?

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Sari Hanafi

17 December, 2024
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Activist Ayat Mneina on the past, present and future of Libya

Anam Alam

Anam Alam

11 December, 2024
Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime was a psychopathic terror state
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Bashar al-Assad's terror state is gone: Syria can breathe again

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Karim Safieddine

10 December, 2024
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Road trips, secrets, and unity in Women Who Blow on Knots play

The New Arab Staff

Lydia Doye

21 November, 2024
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Tunisia
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The slow death of Tunisia's revolution for democracy

Basma El Atti
15 October, 2024
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Apathy and disengagement mark Tunisia's presidential election

Meriem Mohamed 
03 October, 2024
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The fall of Bangladesh's iron lady

M. Niaz Asadullah

M. Niaz Asadullah

12 August, 2024
An Arab Spring in Bangladesh?
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An Arab Spring in Bangladesh?

M. Niaz Asadullah

M. Niaz Asadullah

26 July, 2024
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Huddud's House: The post-Arab Spring novel on the Syrian war

Saliha Haddad

Saliha Haddad

17 July, 2024
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Julian Assange: The leaks that shook the Middle East

The New Arab Staff
25 June, 2024