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Tag: Middle East and North Africa Unrest (2010- )

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Egypt Pardons Alaa Abd El Fattah, Its Most Prominent Political Prisoner

September 22, 2025September 22, 2025VIVIAN YEEComments Off on Egypt Pardons Alaa Abd El Fattah, Its Most Prominent Political Prisoner

Alaa Abd El Fattah, a British-Egyptian dual citizen, was imprisoned for most of the past 12 years as a dissident. He and his mother went on hunger strike to press for his release.

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Egypt Pardons Most Prominent Political Prisoner

September 22, 2025VIVIAN YEEComments Off on Egypt Pardons Most Prominent Political Prisoner

Alaa Abd El Fattah, a British-Egyptian dual citizen, was imprisoned for most of the past 12 years as a dissident. He and his mother went on hunger strike to press for his release.

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Egypt Fears Syria’s Revolutionary Fervor Could Be Contagious

January 31, 2025February 1, 2025VIVIAN YEEComments Off on Egypt Fears Syria’s Revolutionary Fervor Could Be Contagious

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched warily.

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Syria Faces Big Challenge in Seeking Justice for Assad Regime Crimes

January 12, 2025VIVIAN YEEComments Off on Syria Faces Big Challenge in Seeking Justice for Assad Regime Crimes

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will be hard to achieve in a vulnerable, divided and battered country.

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Syrians Celebrate the Fall of al-Assad, and Look to Rebuild

December 12, 2024December 15, 2024Aryn BakerComments Off on Syrians Celebrate the Fall of al-Assad, and Look to Rebuild

After five decades under a brutal regime that kept many in fear and poverty, families flooded back from Lebanon, eager to start the slow process of healing.

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Revolutions Swept the Middle East in 2011. Will Syria’s End Differently?

December 9, 2024December 9, 2024PATRICK KINGSLEYComments Off on Revolutions Swept the Middle East in 2011. Will Syria’s End Differently?

Bashar al-Assad’s downfall evokes memories of uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, each of which brought civil war or authoritarian rule. Syrians hope for better.

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Tunisia’s President Cruises to Landslide Re-Election Victory

October 7, 2024VIVIAN YEEComments Off on Tunisia’s President Cruises to Landslide Re-Election Victory

President Kais Saied’s apparent landslide re-election is the latest sign that authoritarianism has returned to the birthplace of the Arab Spring.

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Tunisia’s Autocratic Leader Is Poised to Steamroll to Election Victory

October 6, 2024October 6, 2024VIVIAN YEEComments Off on Tunisia’s Autocratic Leader Is Poised to Steamroll to Election Victory

President Kais Saied, who has jailed opponents and consolidated power, is almost certain to win Sunday’s election in the North African country, the birthplace of the Arab Spring movement.

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Hundreds of Bahraini Political Prisoners Freed in ‘Bittersweet’ Royal Pardon

May 5, 2024May 5, 2024Nazeeha Saeed and Vivian NereimComments Off on Hundreds of Bahraini Political Prisoners Freed in ‘Bittersweet’ Royal Pardon

Amid deepening tensions in the Middle East, Bahraini activists said that the mass pardon, while welcome, was incomplete, and called for the release of several jailed opposition leaders.

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Israel-Hamas War Threatens Wider Inferno in Middle East

October 13, 2023October 13, 2023Vivian NereimComments Off on Israel-Hamas War Threatens Wider Inferno in Middle East

The conflict is inflaming tensions across the region, where many of the problems that fueled uprisings and conflicts a decade ago remain unresolved.

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Egypt Pardons Alaa Abd El Fattah, Its Most Prominent Political Prisoner

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Egypt Pardons Most Prominent Political Prisoner

September 22, 2025VIVIAN YEE

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