Arab Spring Archives

Arab Spring

“Tell Me How This Ends”

America’s muddled involvement with Syria

The Habits of Highly Cynical People

On April 24, 1916 — Easter Monday — Irish republicans in Dublin and a handful of other places staged an armed rebellion against British occupation. At the time, the British…

Lost Girls

by Sarah Dohrmann,

Women, sex, and the Arab Spring

What Went Wrong

by David Bromwich,

Assessing Obama’s legacy

Under Western Eyes

by John Gray,

By John Gray, adapted from an article in the October 2014 issue of Prospect. Gray is the author of many books, including False Dawn, Straw Dogs, and The Silence of…

Against Human Rights

by Eric A. Posner,

From The Twilight of Human Rights Law, by Eric A. Posner, out next month from Oxford University Press. Posner is a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Amarildo…

Winds of Revolt

by Robyn Creswell,

The poetry of Middle Eastern uprising

Here Comes Everybuddy

by Andy Merrifield,

Will Oil Drown the Arab Spring?

by Michael Ross,