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Arab spring: 10th anniversary

A decade on from the seismic uprisings which rocked the Middle East and north Africa, this series examine the legacy of the Arab Spring and its impact across the region today

  • Karim Ennarah and Jess Kelly. Photograph AP

    Karim’s story: Egypt’s crackdown on human rights workers

    Ten years since the Arab spring rocked Egypt and removed its president, the country is still detaining human rights workers and locking up political prisoners
  • People wave flags and chant slogans during a gathering to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Arab Spring in Martyrs Square on 17 February, 2021 in Tripoli, Libya.

    ‘War weary’ Libya reflects 10 years on from Gaddafi and Arab spring

    Overshadowed by Syria, the lessons of Libya from the past decade have barely been cross examined
  • Syrian families outside a Syrian grill shop on Inonu street in Gaziantep, Turkey.

    What happened to the Syrian refugees who got stuck in Turkey?

    Gaziantep, in southern Turkey, is home to about half a million Syrian refugees, many of whom had hoped to make it Europe
  • A young people inspect the damage in a cemetery after a reported barrel bomb attack by Syrian government forces in Aleppo, Syria, in April 2015.

    'A crime on top of a crime': Assad regime reburies Aleppo's war dead

  • Sarah Kassim

    'We won't give up’: new generation of activists keep Syria's revolution alive

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    Untold Chaos: living through Libya's wars – documentary

  • Untold Chaos: living through Libya's wars – documentary

  • Sisi with French president Emmanuel Macron in Paris, December 2020.

    Ten years on from the Arab spring, Sisi has made life in Egypt hellish

    Amr Darrag
    The hopes of a decade ago are long gone, shattered by the former army chief who was backed by western powers, says former Egyptian cabinet minister Amr Darrag
  • An Egyptian protestor climbs a pole waving his national flag during a demonstration in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Nathalie Bardou)

    Reverberate, episode 3: the call and response that changed Cairo – podcast

    The bittersweet story of Egypt’s revolution began with a vast call-and-response song that helped bring down Hosni Mubarak. But it didn’t end there
  • Tahrir Square on 1 February 2011, when hundreds of thousands of Egyptians swamped Cairo to protest against the rule of Hosni Mubarak.

    'I will never give up': Egypt's exiles still dream of democracy

    Those who rose up against dictatorship believe their example will inspire another generation
  • Wounded anti-government protesters lie on the ground as they receive medical help at a field hospital during clashes with security forces in Sanaa, Yemen, in 2011.

    Ten years after the Arab spring, Yemen has little hope left

    Racked by war, cholera and now coronavirus, the country faces the world’s worst famine in decades
  • A Tunisian demonstrator holds a sign during a protest against the Islamist Ennahda movement in Tunis October 26, 2011.

    The Guardian view on the Arab Spring, a decade on: a haunting legacy

  • Egypt’s new media ambassadors

    Sugar-coated propaganda? Middle East taps into power of influencers

  • Trail pic for Arab springs interactive

    How the Arab spring engulfed the Middle East – and changed the world

    An era of uprisings, nascent democracy and civil war in the Arab world started with protests in a small Tunisian city. The unrest grew to engulf the Middle East, shake authoritarian governments and unleash consequences that still shape the world a decade later
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    'The release of six decades of fear': Egypt's lost revolution

    25 January 2011 marked the start of Hosni Mubarak’s fall but also moves by the military to take over
  • Nesrine Malik

    The Arab spring wasn't in vain. Next time will be different

    Nesrine Malik
    Lessons have been learned about how to convert the forces that demand equality into those that deliver it, says the Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
  • Tunisia and the Arab spring 10 years on: 'We tried to rise'

    When a young street seller set himself on fire to protest lack of employment opportunities and government corruption, Tunisia became the cradle of the Arab spring revolutions that swept the middle east. Less than a month later, the dictator Ben Ali had to flee the country he had ruled for 23 years. Ten years on, what change has the revolution brought and was the sacrifice of so many worth the price?

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    Life has got worse since Arab spring, say people across Middle East

    Exclusive: Guardian-YouGov poll suggests majority in nine countries across the Arab world feel inequality has increased
  • Picture of Mohamed Bouazizi on the post office building in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia.

    Returning to Tunisia on the 10th anniversary of the Arab spring

    The Guardian’s international correspondent Michael Safi returns to Tunisia where, 10 years ago, fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to himself. It triggered a wave of protests across North Africa and the Middle East which have had profound ramifications
  • A portrait of Mohamed Bouazizi in his home town of Sidi Bouzid

    'He ruined us': 10 years on, Tunisians curse man who sparked Arab spring

    Thanks in part to Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation, Tunisians are freer than before, but many are miserable and disillusioned
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