Arab Spring

For the western world, the "Arab spring" threatens to be a classic case of good news and bad news.

With the Arab spring turning into a hot summer, the gaze of EU diplomats will no doubt be drawn across the Mediterranean.

True, there have been protests in a few African countries since the onset of the so-called Arab Spring, but the results have been mixed.

The West does not seem to notice the steady deterioration in human rights in Turkey, instead extolling it as a model for the Arab spring.

The counterterrorism relationship with Tunisia, where the Arab Spring movement began, also remains strong, he said.

The Arab Spring appeared to flagging a few months ago, as Libya's opposition suffered setbacks even as Syria's regime dug-in.

Polling since the Arab Spring shows little change in regional attitudes toward the United States.

Last March, China said the world should stay out of the Arab Spring.

But this traditional diplomatic approach ignores the networked nature of the Arab Spring.

"The Arab spring has been a great inspiration to us, " says Billy Mayaya, head of Malawi's Civil and Political Space Platform.

CNN journalists used smartphones during the Arab spring to "get right into the heart of the story" .

The anger of the many educated but unemployed young people has been a driving force in the Arab Spring movement.

The ponderous official theme was the internet "as a catalyst for change" , with a lot of nodding to WikiLeaks and the Arab spring.

In the long run, most western governments are genuinely convinced that the Arab spring is a historic and positive development.

And I think we'll be seeing that the situation for freedom of expression may be getting worse as a reaction to the Arab Spring.

But today the Arab spring is a step further away from oppression and dictatorship and a step closer to freedom and democracy.

And the Arab Spring, which many gay-rights organizations hoped would bring greater acceptance, has proved to be an ambivalent blessing.

These days, as much of the Arab Spring has faded into an Arab winter of repression, Morocco still feels fairly spring-like.

Bouazizi is, of course, not the only hero of the Arab Spring.

What became known as the Arab Spring uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East ousted the presidents of Egypt and Tunisia.

While he died two weeks later from his wounds, he will forever be remembered as the spark of the Arab spring.

As with its past inability to shift Arab dictators, the EU will struggle to shape the outcome of the Arab spring.

There may be time, yet, for Mr Assad to back down. If he did, the Arab spring really might turn into summer.

Iranian anxiety illustrates that the geopolitics of the Arab spring are still far from settled.

Both are meeting the challenges of the Arab spring better than the region's fallen or beleaguered republican presidents-for-life.

Play around with it to explore the factors that created fertile soil for the Arab Spring.

Defying their stereotype as victims of oppressive patriarchies, Arab women have made their presence a defining feature of the Arab spring.

She made her name on Facebook as "Tunisian Girl" and, as the country's Arab spring rolled into a fullscale uprising, became a media darling.

Amid the turmoil of the Arab spring, Turkey offers a heartening example of a secular democracy in the Muslim world.

Why did the suicide of one poor Tunisian in a town no one had ever heard of spark the political revolutions of the Arab Spring?

The sudden pace at which revolutionary fires swept across North Africa took the world by surprise: It was a hopeful Arab Spring for many.

Aliaa el-Mahdi, a 20-year-old university student in Cairo, has found a very different way to celebrate the Arab spring.

Because of these two men, what has been called the Arab Spring is in the process of clouding over and becoming more like an Arab hell.

SHENGGEN FAN: "Definitely, it is one of the factors that really caused the Arab Spring. "

Without Europe setting a good economic example, the path to a peaceful Arab Spring transition will be much more difficult.

Before the Arab spring his attempts to modernise the economy enriched a coterie of his cronies but did little for ordinary Syrians.

The scenes served as a reminder that following the euphoria of the Arab spring, little concrete progress towards reform has been made.

In February he celebrated the Arab spring in Cairo's Tahrir Square, drawing rare praise from the German media.

Arab spring and tea party are all the manifestation of this representation deficit.

The Arab Spring triggers popular rebellions against autocrats across the Arab world.

Occupy Wall Street organizers say they are inspired by the Arab Spring that led to the toppling of regimes in Tunisia and Egypt.

Europe's response to the Arab spring is governed by narrow national agricultural and immigration interests, not generosity, and imagination.

In the rest of the Arab Spring, world powers have managed to get on the right side of history.

Broadcast later this month, they explore how freedom can be won in her own country and what it means for the Arab Spring.

That order is challenged now, not just by shifting geopolitical rivalries, but by the new pressures of the Arab spring.

The Chinese leadership's reaction to the Arab spring has so far been more pronounced than that of its people.

Until the Arab Spring, China could massage the shoulders of dictators everywhere, and take home boat loads of oil, metals and minerals.

AFTER a slow summer, the Arab spring has turned into a turbulent autumn.

No "Arab Spring" in non-Arab Pakistan or, if you prefer, no nuclear weapons in an increasingly unstable Egypt.

A few months later, half its members were embroiled in the turmoil of the Arab Spring.

Six months into the Arab Spring, the Obama administration is struggling to keep pace with events and communicate a revised regional policy.

If you've been following the so-called Arab spring you've also probably read an article asking whether Facebook was behind it all.

One of the under-reported consequences of the Arab Spring is the massive displacement of people.

On the topic of the Arab Spring, Rai was hopeful but cautious and denounced violence, especially against Christians.

Assad to back down. If he did, the Arab spring really might turn into summer.

Response to the Arab Spring and its implications for the Muslim community .

As the US and Europe have learnt in the Arab spring, China is taking note that negotiating solely with regimes is inadequate.

Zhu said there are fears that Burma will open too fast and violently, with something like a color revolution that fueled the Arab Spring.

Since the start of the Arab spring more than 25, 000 people have arrived in Italy by sea, many on the tiny island of Lampedusa.

As the Arab Spring spread across North Africa and the Middle East, Syrian youth began learning about the role of social media in it.

Between the Arab Spring and the death of bin Laden, it is hard to imagine greater blows to al-Qaeda's ideology and organization.

The nations of the Middle East are now much more pre-occupied by the Arab spring, than by Iraq.

The Arab Spring was intoxicating to him, he was moved by it, and he saw the potential for improvement and a dramatic combat situation.

The "Arab Spring" has forced Sarkozy to make several careening U-turns in his foreign policies to date.

Why the global economic crash, the rise of the Tea Party, the Arab Spring, and China's coming fall are all connected.

The Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities threw a lit match into the powder keg of the 'Arab Spring. '

As the Arab Spring grew, protests also began in parts of Europe.

Division has eviscerated international co-operation just when the turmoil whipped up by the Arab spring makes it essential.

"Obama wants a Sunni alliance in the Middle East, in Arab Spring countries, to besiege Iran, " said political sociologist Said Sadek.

The Arab Spring takes photojournalist Kate Brooks to Cairo to witness the protests that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

An old-fashioned writer, I seldom surf the Web, and the Arab Spring simply passed me by.

GAGGLE of protesters in Kathmandu, Nepal's fume-filled capital, want a Himalayan summer to follow the Arab spring.

One year on, a team of researchers uncovers the man behind the martyr and the economic roots of the Arab Spring.

They also promised not to abandon the protesters fighting for democracy in the Arab spring.

So far the Arab spring has cast violent jihad to the margins.

But he has found himself obliged by the unexpected events of the "Arab Spring" to continue where Bush left off.

Here, Tunisians celebrate the Islamist Ennahda party's victory last month, the first vote that resulted from the "Arab Spring" revolts.

The Arab Spring was a revolutionary development. '

WHEN the Arab spring was in its infancy something unusual happened in the world's second-largest Muslim-majority democracy.

No matter how small, they would be the Arab spring's greatest reward.

After the lightning revolts in Tunisia and Egypt, the second phase of the Arab spring has proved immensely more complicated.

The public utterances emphasise support for the Arab spring.

Some are not: Nobody predicted the Arab Spring because nobody can predict the human spirit.

"Arab Spring" is the phrase coined by the media to describe the series of popular uprisings in the Arab world that started in early 2011.

But the changes emerging from the so-called Arab Spring go beyond a clash between pro-Western movements and Islamist groups.

The democratic ideal has lately found its way to the Arab world from another direction, by way of the Arab spring.

The Arab spring, for all its messiness, is still broadly moving in the right direction.

Regional threats: Arab Spring countries, the Middle East, South Asia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and other areas remain unstable.

In January, at the dawn of the Arab spring, few thought Syria a likely participant.

WHILE the Arab spring unfolds all round them, the (mostly Persian) citizens of Iran seem condemned to a lonely purgatory.

But the conditions for the Arab Spring already existed before American decline took hold.

After backing the losing sides in Arab Spring revolutions in Tunisia, in Egypt and in Libya, is Russia doing it again -- in Syria?

The Arab spring is putting some important markets for Turkey's giant construction companies at risk.

"That's largely because of the Arab spring" , said Michele McNally, assistant managing editor for photography at the New York Times.

But the immediate fate of the Arab spring turns on Libya and Syria, both in the throes of revolution.

Instead, the economic consequences of the Arab spring are what matter.

But some argue that increased education should also take credit for the Arab spring.

Before the Arab spring, dictators were, in effect, bribed to do this.

The Arab spring presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to banish it.

This kind of spying became a top priority for Libya as the region's Arab Spring revolutions blossomed in recent months.

The "Arab Spring" pro-democracy movement began in Tunisia. Protests forced President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to resign in January.

And this runs directly counter to the aspirations of the Arab Spring.

How full hearted is the West's support for this unprecedented 'Arab Spring'?

THEY claim to be inspired by the Arab spring, or the student uprising of May 1968 in Paris.

If so, the Arab Spring holds little promise of thaw between Israelis and Palestinians.

One potential obstacle for an Arab Spring award is the Feb. 1 nomination deadline.

As the Arab Spring blooms in the Middle East, India has been experiencing a summer of rage.

The so-called Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and Northern Africa topped the agenda.

Realism is dead, clamour the cheerleaders of the Arab spring.

The truth is that the Arab spring really began in Tunisia, not in Iraq.

The Arab Spring boosted gasoline prices -- never helpful.

But, as the Arab spring has shown, nothing lasts forever.

But the rapprochement didn't survive the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests that hit the country amid the so-called Arab spring.

Few countries welcomed the Arab spring more loudly than Germany.

But with the Arab Spring and the civil war next door in Syria, momentum has increased.

If both the Qaddafi and Assad families fell, the Arab spring would turn to summer.

THE Arab spring has, inevitably, spawned a gaggle of instant books.

The "Arab Spring" in the Middle East and North Africa has raised hopes and dreams. But can it raise money to invest in a better future?

The "Arab Spring" pro-democracy movement began in Tunisia.

Most Arab Spring countries rank in the lower half of the index, with scores below 4.

That is certainly happening in countries that are waiting for the promised "Arab Spring fund" to aid emerging democracies.

The economics of the Arab spring Open for business?

The fires of democratic revolution won't spread south after the Arab Spring.

But the Arab spring highlights another vital interest.

Yet the Arab spring may encourage Hamas at last to follow suit.

And I think what's so wonderful about the Arab Spring is that it's disproving that assumption.

The role of food prices in triggering the Arab Spring has been widely described.

You asked for our assessment of the Arab Spring.

The reaction of governments, particularly in China and Vietnam but elsewhere also, to the Arab Spring earlier this year is instructive.

The moral is that the countries of the Arab spring are likely to face multiple transitions, not just one.

There are many ways to describe U. S. policy toward the Arab Spring.

It is tempting to draw a parallel between the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Arab spring of 2011.

Investors should give the Arab spring more time.

The Arab Spring continues even now in midsummer.

'I see Africa together with the Arab Spring as areas of progress.

This really is an Arab spring.

For example he failed to make public pronouncements over the Arab Spring uprisings.

How has the Arab Spring affected your business?

What if the Arab spring turns to winter?

But the Arab spring has thrown sand in the works.

Look at the Arab Spring. People ask me if there's hope for China.

The Arab spring may yet turn to summer.

For example, Washington failed to deliver a timely response to Arab spring when the whole free world was seeking aspiration from the US.

IS THE Arab spring a 1989 moment?

I am sure Arab Spring will cross their minds.

Al-Qaeda, the terrorist network that bin Laden founded more than 20 years ago, has played little part in the Arab spring.

Poland reckons it can offer something to the Arab spring too: the experience of casting off dictatorship.

For example, how to protect the US and Israel's long term standing during and after the Arab spring?

Digital communications have tipped the balance of power away from the authorities towards the streets, as they did in the Arab spring;

Just as protests in Tunisia led the Arab spring, so its elections can show other Arab nations the way to true democracy

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Arab Spring "coming earlier every year" , say scientists

A more secure Israel amid the Arab spring

The economics of the Arab spring

What Arabs are writing about the Arab spring

Effects on The Arab Spring

The Arab spring death toll

For example, a writer for the Atlantic saw this a couple of months ago, in the wake of the Arab Spring