Project Exile: Criticizing Kurdish referendum leads to exile "He told me to either leave or they would beat me very terribly." Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has long had a reputation in the West as a...
Project Exile: After hunger strike, Egyptian journalist in Qatar fears return "I face probably a life sentence or maybe even worse. The idea of not being able to go back to your own country...is just...
Egypt’s staged election Egypt will hold a presidential election at the end of this month. But there’s little drama about who will actually win. President Abdel-Fatah...
Project Exile: Bahrain journalist escaped Arab Spring crackdown "I was in hiding in Bahrain for two years, in a small room inside a house" Few escapes are as dramatic as Ali Abdulemam’s. The celebrated liberal...
Egypt gay rights activist optimistic despite challenges There is no one in Egypt that you would recognize and say, 'He is the face of the LGBT movement.' The life of a gay man in Egypt isn't...
Tunisia at a crossroads Islamic State, corruption hinder lone Arab democracy Five years after Tunisians toppled dictator Zine El-Abeddine Ben Ali, the country is at a...
Tunisia: the Arab Spring’s last light The Arab Spring toppled long-ruling autocrats across the Arab world. But with Libya in chaos, Egypt back under military rule and Syria and Yemen...
Gulf states struggle amid depressed oil prices New taxes and cuts to government spending spur economic pain As the Arab Spring swept across the oil-rich Persian Gulf five years ago, the region's...
Sentence for Tunisian blogger cut to 6 months A Tunisian military appeals court has sentenced a blogger to six months in prison, halving a previous sentence for comments critical of the army he...
Book talk: “Arab Women Rising” This episode of Global Journalist originally aired in August 2014. Following the Arab Spring, gender equality between men and women in the...
