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CHINA Microblogging Pushes the Envelope China's state-controlled news outlets, which compete fiercely for stories and revenue, are starting to push back in a...
Syria: Is This an Arab Spring or a Balkan Winter?
Special Envoy Kofi Annan told the U.N. Security Council Tuesday that his struggling peace plan is the last hope to prevent Syria from plunging into an all-out...
Controversial Tunisian Court Ruling Reflects Dilemmas of the Arab Spring
In a sign that conservative Islam could yet take hold in this modern, largely secular country—home to the Arab Spring’s first revolution—a feisty, blunt-talking...
Global Media Watchdog Names Enemies of Internet
The Arab Spring is changing the face of Internet freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders, which released its latest "Enemies of the Internet" list...
Arab Spring with same impact as "big bang strategy": Islam at war with self - not West
Nice piece in the NYT at the end of September pointing out that the primary impact of the Arab Spring is that, in giving people chances to rule themselves and...
Saudi Prince Throws $300 Million at Twitter (What Arab Spring?)
Here you go Twitter, have $300 million, signed: Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, nephew of Saudi Arabia's king and, according to Forbes, the 26th...
Former Mossad Chief Discounts Arab Spring, Welcomes Prospect of a Sunni Syria
Meir Dagan, who until February ran Israel's overseas intelligence agency for nine pretty successful years, has been making a new name for himself as outspoken...
The Winter of Morocco's Discontent: Will the Arab Spring Arrive?
Could Morocco be next? For nearly a year, Moroccans have clashed with riot police in near-weekly protests, as they take to the streets to demand more political...
Arab Spring, NBA Lockout Top Twitter’s 2011 Standout Stories
The biggest events of 2011 — the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami — were tremendous on their own. But the reverberations of...
Is Kazakhstan Experiencing Its Own ‘Arab Spring’ Moment?
An unusual thing happened over the weekend in Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan and the vast Central Asian country’s major commercial city: roughly five...
Photo Essays
Photos: Where the Arab Spring Began
TIME's Yuri Kozyrev visits the town where 26-year-old street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in December 2010, igniting a rebellion that toppled the...
Tawakul Karman Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Yemen's "mother of the revolution" is recognized by the Nobel Committee for her activism in the country during, and before, the Arab Spring
Articles from Around the Web
Algerians Skeptical of Election Results Favoring Party in Power
The announcement on Friday was at odds both with analysts' predictions and the experience of Algeria's neighbors in the wake of last year's Arab Spring. ...
CEO' Pay Racket' Sparks Investor Insurrection
The days of huge pay packages for CEO's running big global businesses are under threat from leading shareholders, whom some think are beginning their own version of the Arab Spring ...
Memo From Ramallah: Arab Spring Stirs Palestinian Journalists to Test Free Speech...
Palestinian journalists and activists, imbued with the spirit of the Arab Spring, have become more daring, but the instinct of some in the Palestinian Authority has been to...
Latest Shift in Jordan's Cabinet Sows Doubts on Reform
Since protests inspired by the Arab Spring rocked Jordan 15 months ago, King Abdullah II, who promised electoral changes, has replaced three prime ministers. ...
