Reflecting on the Chinese “Jasmine Revolution” Tiffany Lam Feb 25, 2014 Roughly three years ago today, the Tunisian Revolution, which sparked the Arab Spring, successfully …
Karama has No Walls: An Interview with Sara Ishaq Benedikt van den Woldenberg Feb 24, 2014 < Karama has No Walls was recently nominated for this year’s Oscar in the category Documentary Short. It is a…
Wrapping Up the Arab Spring (2011-2013) Part 6: Frontier Areas of the Arab Spring:… Benedikt van den Woldenberg Nov 20, 2013 While the Arab Spring rocked much of the Arab world, upending the regional political order, states in the…
Wrapping Up the Arab Spring (2011-2013) Part 5: Relative Calm in (formerly)… Benedikt van den Woldenberg Nov 12, 2013 While several Arab republics have witnessed regime transitions, there are some other republics that have…
Wrapping Up the Arab Spring (2011-2013) Part 4: Monarchical Persistance and… Benedikt van den Woldenberg Oct 31, 2013 So far, it seems that republics in the Middle East were far more affected by uprisings than their monarchical…
Wrapping Up the Arab Spring (2011-2013) Part 3: Repression and Civil War Benedikt van den Woldenberg Oct 22, 2013 The civil war in Syria highlights the more vicious and destabilizing aspects of the Arab Spring. In Tunisia,…
Wrapping up the Arab Spring (2011-2013) Part 2: Revolution And Transition Benedikt van den Woldenberg Oct 18, 2013 Since the beginning of what soon became known by the neologism ‘Arab Spring’ four countries have witnessed a…
Wrapping up the Arab Spring (2011-2013), Part 1: Introduction Benedikt van den Woldenberg Oct 15, 2013 What happened to the Arab Spring, this unprecedented wave of protests spreading throughout the Middle East? Since…