Arab Spring

Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb behind bars in Cairo in 1966. (AFP/Getty)

The Muslim Brotherhood is a clear threat to the Western way of life

Dominic Green · July 18, 2025 4:05 am

Syrian government falls: Looting and celebrations mark end of over half-century of Assad rule

Brady Knox · December 8, 2024 8:28 am

The ugly truth is that autocracy is often popular

Dan Hannan · May 18, 2023 11:23 am

The Arab Spring has ended in failure

Dan Hannan · May 15, 2023 1:10 pm

In this photo taken Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, members of the Tunisian National Constituent Assembly celebrate the adoption of the new constitution in Tunis, Tunisia. After decades of dictatorship and two years of arguments and compromises, Tunisians on Sunday finally have a new constitution laying the foundations for a new democracy. The document is groundbreaking as one of the most progressive constitutions in the Arab world - and for the fact that it got written at all. It passed late Sunday by 200 votes out of 216 in the Muslim Mediterranean country that inspired uprisings across the region after overthrowing a dictator in 2011. (AP Photo/Aimen Zine)

Biden misses a coup in Tunisia

Washington Examiner · July 29, 2021 4:00 am

Tunisia's President Kais Saied, center, leads a security meeting with members of the army and police forces in Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday, July 25, 2021. Troops surrounded Tunisia's parliament and blocked its speaker Rached Ghannouchi from entering Monday after the president suspended the legislature and fired the prime minister following nationwide protests over the country's economic troubles and the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis. (AP Photo/Slim Abid)

Tunisian president accused of ‘coup’ after sacking prime minister and freezing parliament

Brady Knox · July 26, 2021 10:30 pm

Afghan security forces inspect the site of a bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 18, 2020. A suicide bomber in a stolen military Humvee targeted a base in eastern Afghanistan belonging to the country's intelligence service early on Monday, killing at least nine members of the force, Afghan officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

National Security

Suicide bombers attack police near US Embassy in Tunisia

Zach Halaschak · March 6, 2020 7:35 pm

Postcard from Carthage: Out with the old

Hugo Gurdon · September 20, 2019 3:00 am

Supporting local, less consequential elections as a stepping stone to larger, more consequential elections is one way to try to slowly build a truly liberal democracy. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

America shouldn’t accept ‘illiberal democracy’ in the Middle East

Cliff Smith · March 11, 2018 4:01 am

Why Tunisia Is the One Lasting Success of the Arab Spring

Dore Feith · January 11, 2018 9:40 am

Beltway Confidential

When it comes to the #IranProtests, be careful who you support

Siraj Hashmi · December 30, 2017 8:55 pm

Generally, Google has broad power to police its platform and change its search algorithm to "de-rank" Russia Today. But there is a second possibility. Government officials may have threatened Google to bring about this "de-ranking." If so, the First Amendment poses questions for us. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Google needs the First Amendment, too

Washington Examiner Staff · December 4, 2017 5:01 am