Challenges of Arab Uprisings Reflected at World Social Forum
“This was like a dream come true,” said a radiant Sossi Mohamed Sadek, a Tunisian second year engineering student…
The Indypendent
Tunisia
One Year On, The Roots of Success for Tunisia’s Revolution
The news has been filled with contention over Egypt’s November elections, but far less attention is being paid to…
Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope
Dear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I want to…
Uprisings: From the Middle East to the Midwest
As many as 80,000 people marched to the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison on Saturday as part of an…
The events of the last weeks are one of those historical moments where the lessons of many decades can…
Revolutions in the Information Age
RABAT, MOROCCO— Facebook and cell phone text messages helped Tunisia’s youth organize an unprecedented revolution, which led to the…
Since the late 1990s the World Bank, IMF, European countries and the United States have singled out Tunisia as…
Egypt, Tunisia, and ‘The Resumption of Arab History’
The recent popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt attest above all to the indomitability of the human spirit,…
Algeria Prepares for Day of Pro-Democracy Protests
This article was originally published on CommonDreams.org from The Guardian/UK. Algeria, the oil-rich, military-dominated north African state, braced…
Washington’s Sudden Embrace of Al Jazeera Won’t Erase Past U.S. Crimes Against the Network
This article was originally published on CommonDreams.org from The Nation. If it weren’t for Al Jazeera, much of the…