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March 20, 2019

Algeria
An Algerian Arab Spring?

Is the Arab Spring back, as some protesters, activists, and analysts have declared? The uninspiring answer is a qualified maybe.

People carry their national flags as they gather during a protest over President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's decision to postpone elections and extend his fourth term in office, in Algiers, Algeria March 15, 2019
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

November 20, 2019

Middle East and North Africa
The Legacy of the Arab Uprisings

Despite the 2011 series of anti-government protests across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), political uncertainty and instability persists in the region. Panelists discuss the legacy of the u…

Arab Uprising
Event by Thanassis Cambanis, Michele D. Dunne, Amy Hawthorne, and Abigail Hauslohner

September 27, 2020

United Arab Emirates
The Arab World Is Having a Jewish Revolution

The real achievement of the Abraham Accords isn’t geopolitical—it’s cultural.

Article by Steven A. Cook Middle East Program

September 19, 2011

France
The Arab Springs

Related Reading:The New Arab Revolt: What Happened, What It Means, and What Comes Next, CFR ebook

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Event by Alain Juppé and James P. Rubin

May 30, 2014

Iran
Iran and the Arab World

What are Iran’s goals in the Arab world?  Michael Young, the always insightful opinion editor of Beirut’s Daily Star newspaper, wrote this week that Iran has "two sets of contradictory objectives:" …

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

April 17, 2024

Iran
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

Conceived as the principal defenders of the 1979 revolution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has evolved into an institution with vast political, economic, and military power.

Members of the Revolutionary Guards attend a parliamentary session in Tehran.
Backgrounder by CFR.org Editors