On January 14, 2011, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stepped down after weeks of protests, ending his 24-year rule. What began as a protest by Mohamed Bouazizi – a fruit vendor who set himself on fire – the month before,
We look at the Arab Spring through the eyes of some of the people who lived through it.
OPINION | ARAB SPRING: 10 YEARS ON Ten years on, the winds of change that brought us the Arab Spring have kept blowing, but not always in our favour. In 2011, Khalid Albaih’s cartoons about the Arab Spring went viral, some even
A decade since Khalid Albaih’s cartoons went viral during the Arab uprisings, he revisits some of his most popular pieces from that time. It has been a decade since young men and women all over the Middle East and North Africa rose
As a charismatic revolutionary from a scrappy Cairo neighbourhood, Ahmed Hassan was one of the stars of Jehane Noujaim’s 2013 documentary The Square, which followed a group of Egyptian activists as they toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and then fought
It comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday he was optimistic the “vast majority” of people who need the vaccine most will get one by Easter. The University of Oxford recently announced that its vaccine could be up to 90 percent
The success of the latest coronavirus vaccine trials by Pfizer and BioNTech could pave the way for the rollout of a least one vaccine in the UK early in the new year, a scientist advising the Government has said. Sir John Bell,
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