Arab Spring flares up
The popular uprising across the Middle East has intensified this week with the eruption of violence in Egypt and the resignation of Yemen’s president President Ali Abdullah Saleh. As the Washington...
View ArticleRemembering the fruit vendor who sparked a global revolution, the Arab Spring
A year ago Saturday, a poor Tunisian fruit vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi killed himself. This sparked public protest in his village, which then spread to all of Tunisia and became a successful call for...
View ArticleDoes Davos matter? In a good way, I mean.
News analysis The World Economic Forum opened today in Davos, Switzerland. I wasn’t invited. Neither were you, in all likelihood. Bill Gates always is and will make his standard pitch for assisting the...
View ArticleAt Seattle Town Hall, the Google executive who sparked the Egyptian revolution
In 2010, Egyptian Google executive Wael Ghonim used Facebook to coordinate a protest of the torture and killing of a man by dictatorial President Hosni Mubarak’s security police. It was the beginning...
View ArticleOne view on the Arab Spring: From Syrian jail cell to Muslim feminists
I’ve known journalist D Parvaz for a decade and may never quite see the world the way she does. But it’s worth trying. Parvaz is a reporter for Al Jazeera and was formerly a colleague of mine for many...
View ArticleEconomist: Why food is so expensive for poor people
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...
View ArticleMessage from Egypt: Neither Morsi or the protesters represent most Egyptians
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...
View ArticleWhat’s next for the Egyptian revolution?
Families protesting near Tahrir Square by Flickr user Zeinab Mohamed This has been a tumultuous week in Egypt. Huge protests on against the elected president Muhuammed Morsi were followed by what many...
View ArticleVisualizing health in the Arab world
Guest post by Katie Leach-Kemon, a policy translation specialist from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Mohamed Bouazizi In Tunisia in December 2010, a poor,...
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