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Anti-government protesters wave Tunisian national flags and shout slogans during a demonstration in Tunis August 24, 2013. (REUTERS/Anis Mili)
Spring has not yet sprung in Sidi Bouzid
Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—Almost three years after the revolution, Tunisia celebrates January 14—the day Ben Ali was toppled—as its national day. But the residents of Sidi Bouzid insist that December 17 should be Tunisia’s day of celebration. On December 17, 2010,...Caption:
Supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi before clashes with Egyptian security forces in Ramses Square, in downtown Cairo, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Opinion: The Privatization of the Arab Spring
In his last speech on Syria, in which he sought mandate from the congress for a US military intervention in the embattled country, president Barack Obama pointed that “the hopes of the Arab Spring have unleashed forces of change that are going to take many years to...Caption:
In this Tuesday, August 8, 2000, file photo, Iranian clergyman Mohammad Azadparvar, who allegedly was injured by chemical weapons in the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War, rests next to a picture of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a demonstration in front of Iranian parliament in support of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. For more than a generation, Iranian newspapers regularly post notices: Another veteran of the 1980s war with Iraq has died of complications from exposure to chemical weapons from Saddam Hussein’s arsenal. The claims now that Iran’s Syrian allies used similar battlefield tactics, including possibly unleashing sarin gas, forced Tehran’s leaders into perhaps their most difficult juncture of the nearly 30-month Syrian civil war: How much to stick by Bashar Assad if the Western allegations are backed by U.N. inspection teams. (AP photo/Vahid Salemi)
Opinion: Iran has learned its lesson
It does not matter how Bashar Al-Assad views the British parliament’s decision to reject participation in the international coalition that US president Barack Obama is trying to assemble to respond to Damascus’s use of chemical weapons in Syria. What is more important...Caption:
Anti-government protesters shout slogans during a rally in Cairo September 7, 2005, (REUTERS)
