MS Humanities: Revolutions & Rebellions: News

14 Feb 2011

"Follow the latest tweets on protests around the Arab world and the Middle East from our network of journalists, bloggers and experts"

Blogging the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa

Friday 16 May 2008

The convulsions of the Arab Spring find new life as Yemen, Syria and Egypt struggle to transition to new forms of government.

"David D. Kirkpatrick, the Times’s Cairo bureau chief, narrates the six-part interactive feature “Spreading Revolution” on the Middle East protests, starting with the following introduction: In a matter of weeks, the people of Tunisia and Egypt ousted the dictators who had ruled their countries for decades. No individual, group or event was solely responsible for these historic shifts in power. Yet these six turning points helped to bring people, who have long felt abused by their governments, into the streets to revolt."

Time magazine