Items related to Arab Spring

Yemen: Ex-president's loyalists attack airport
AP 07 Apr 2012
SANAA, Yemen — Loyalists of former Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh seized the country's main airport...
Thousands of Jordanians, including Islamists, trade unionists and leftists, demonstrated on March 4, 2011 in Amman to demand "regime reforms," a day after Prime Minister Maaruf Bakhit rejected calls for a constitutional monarchy. Last month, King Abdullah II sacked the government of Samir Rifai and named Bakhit to head a government charged with introducing general reforms to face popular discontent and protests inspired by the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt.
Jordan demonstrators want jailed activists free
AFP 06 Apr 2012
Nearly 1,500 Jordanians demonstrated on Friday across the country to demand the release of 19 detained political...
File photo of Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of United Arab Emirates, 18 August 2010.
UAE closes Dubai office of US-funded National Democratic Institute
Reuters 31 Mar 2012
The United Arab Emirates has closed the Dubai office of the National Democratic Institute, a US-funded pro-democracy...
Syria opposition to rally to mark year of struggle
AP 18 Mar 2012
BEIRUT — Syrian opposition groups are calling for protests Sunday in the capital Damascus and elsewhere to...
A file photo of the BBC Arabic service.
BBC produces film on role of electronic media in Arab uprisings
Egypt Independent 17 Mar 2012
BBC Arabic announced on Saturday that it has produced a documentary film featuring the role of new media and social...
A picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syrian army helicopters monitoring a massive rally in support of the regime outside the (President Bashar) Assad Library in Damascus' Umawiyin Sqare on the first anniversary of the anti-Assad revolt.
Pro-Assad show, 'massacre' mark Syria anniversary
AFP 15 Mar 2012
Huge rallies showed support for Syria's president on Thursday despite a new "massacre" report and a...
In "The Black Dot" (2010) by Egyptian author Walid Taher, a group of children triumphs over a mysterious, oppressive dot.
Where are the children's books about the 'Arab Spring'?
M. Lynx Qualey 11 Mar 2012
At this year’s Cairo International Book Fair, the most sought-after books were those about Arab revolutions....
Libyans waving their national flags as they celebrate Libya's liberation, Misrata, October 24,2011. Libyan NTC declared officially Libya's fully liberation, few days after Moammer Gadhafi's death in his hometown, Sirte.
Libyan PM promises brighter future for women
AFP 10 Mar 2012
Women "will have a place" in Libya after the fall of Muammar Qadhafi, interim Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-...
Study: Fewer women in parliaments after Arab Spring
Reuters 03 Mar 2012
Opportunities from the Arab Spring to boost the low number of women in parliaments are being missed, while globally the...
Dozens of lawyers and families of the revolution martyrs protesting against what they called as 'intransigence' of the Appeal Court President in granting them permits to attend trial sessions of deposed President Hosni Mubarak, former interior minister Habib al-Adly, who face charges of killing protesters during the January revolution, Justice Ministry, Cairo, 11 August, 2011.
Threads of 'Narrating the Arab Spring'
Naira Antoun 25 Feb 2012
Many of us have spoken and thought of those we wished were present to witness — and perhaps participate in...