Guest post by Katie Leach-Kemon, a policy translation specialist from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Mohamed…
Families protesting near Tahrir Square by Flickr user Zeinab Mohamed This has been a tumultuous week in Egypt. Huge protests…
Nadia supported the original revolution, Egypt’s Arab Spring, that deposed the dictator Hosni Mubarak. She has not been happy with President Mohamed Morsi or the Muslim Brotherhood. Yet she is not supportive of the current protest movement aimed at forcing Morsi from office. Nadia sees chaos ahead if that happens
Were you confused by the stories that explained, way back when, that the riots and political unrest which exploded into what we then called the Arab Spring (now perhaps better dubbed the Arab Turmoil or Festering Wounds) were sparked by food price increases? This may help clear things up.
I’ve known journalist D Parvaz for a decade and may never quite see the world the way she does. But it’s…
In 2010, Egyptian Google executive Wael Ghonim used Facebook to coordinate a protest of the torture and killing of a…
News analysis The World Economic Forum opened today in Davos, Switzerland. I wasn’t invited. Neither were you, in all likelihood.…
A year ago Saturday, a poor Tunisian fruit vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi killed himself. This sparked public protest in his…
Egypt’s Tahrir Square, at the start of the uprisingFlickr, Jonathan Rashad The popular uprising across the Middle East has intensified…