CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab women played a central role in the Arab Spring, but their hopes the revolts would bring greater freedom and expanded rights for women have been thwarted by entrenched ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Steven Heydemann, Middle East Studies director at Smith College, about how Syria might avoid replicating Arab countries that are worse off after overthrowing dictators.

Ms. Kandasamy is an Indian writer, poet and activist. She wrote from Chennai, India. A new visual grammar of resistance is being written across a vast arc of South and Southeast Asia, live-streamed in ...

REUTERS - Here is a timeline of major events in the Arab Spring in the last year. January 14, 2011 - After days of clashes in Tunisia in which dozens are killed, and having made empty promises of ...