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Hackers target Bahrain airport, news sites to mark Arab Spring uprising

February 15, 2023 8:22 am

The group posted images showing 504 Gateway Timeout Errors, saying the hacking was “in support of the revolution of our oppressed people of Bahrain.

Unless structural reforms are undertaken, Algeria could see a second Arab Spring

April 02, 2019 9:17 am

Now there is a strong feeling among the Algerians that even if the state is controlled by a few individuals, they have the power to bring down the government.

Trapped in The Digital Square

January 05, 2019 2:21 am

How technology is chipping away at the very fabric of socio-political exchange.

Why did the Arab Spring begin in Tunisia?

October 30, 2017 12:15 am

To this day, the question, “Why Tunisia succeeded?” is being answered in very different ways by scholars, researchers and commentators.

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Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh keeps friend and foe guessing after skirmish with Houthi allies

September 06, 2017 8:44 pm

Fearing the Houthis are a proxy for their arch-foe Iran, the mostly Gulf Arab alliance seeks to help the internationally recognised government push up from a base in Yemen's south towards Sanaa. Saleh's guile has been key to resisting the push.

Arab Spring Anniversary: Five years ago a fruit-seller in Tunisia set himself on fire...

December 18, 2015 8:31 pm

Fruit-seller Mohammed Bouazizi act of setting himself on fire had sparked a ‘revolution’ and it led to imitation-attempts in neighbouring Arab countries resulting in a complex chain of events in Arab countries - what the world came to know as 'the Arab Spring'.