Regional tensions, Arab Spring worries backdrop for Saudi’s next …
Washington Post
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The death of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz on Saturday means that — for the second time in less than a year …
Hamas factions’ reversal of roles rooted in ‘Arab Spring‘
Los Angeles Times
Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip, emboldened by Egypt’s revolt, have taken a tougher stance while hard-line colleagues in Syria have had to be more …

Los Angeles Times
‘Arab Spring plunges Middle East back into 1950s for Israel’
RT
The rapid change in the Arab world is turning Middle East into a region where peace is not possible. Israel is confused and has no strategy for the shift, which …
US may have less Mideast clout, uses it with care
Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Events in Egypt, Bahrain and Syria illustrate the limits of U.S. influence in the Middle East following the Arab Spring and a U.S. …
Arab Spring undone?
The Express Tribune
More than a year in, it is obvious for all to see that the Arab Spring has lost its lustre. In Egypt, people are finding out just how messy the transition to democracy …

The Express Tribune
Egyptian generals let Arab Spring wilt
Brisbane Times
Egypt’s place in the Arab world vested huge historical and, by example, significance in its people’s 18-day revolt. Displaying phenomenal courage, they stole …

Brisbane Times
Moroccan kismet: A gentler Arab Spring
Coeur d’Alene Press
Bouazizi ignited more than himself. His death triggered the Arab Spring, a Twitter-driven revolution that engulfed Muslim nations in the Mediterranean in 2011.
Opinion: From Tahrir Square to the classroom
San Jose Mercury News
“Now that,” I said, “would be the real Arab Spring.” Rote learning is still the dominant education method in most Arab public schools. The Garretts, with some …
Syria’s Assad has embraced pariah status
Washington Post
More than a decade before the Arab Spring, there was the Damascus Spring. In the first months after Bashar al-Assad took over Syria in 2000, a wave of free …
Kyrgyzstan is a beacon of democracy in autocratic Central Asia says …
Telegraph.co.uk
A revolution in Kyrgyzstan, a poor ex-Soviet state in Central Asia, acted as the spark for the Arab Spring of 2011, Roza Otunbayeva, a former Kyrgyz president, …

Telegraph.co.uk