The Arab Spring

As Egypt marks the year anniversary of the revolution that brought down Hosni Mubarak, we speak with Dalia Ziada, an Egyptian human rights activist who has been working to spread Martin Luther King’s ideas of non-violence in the country.

Arab Spring protesters have used social media and cell phones to organize. But an investigation finds that oppressive regimes are also using the technologies to track down those dissidents.

Author Bruce Feiler argues that the yearning for freedom reverberating through the Arab world originated with the stories of Moses and Abraham.

Syria’s foreign minister said today the government would soon present “an unprecedented example of democracy” in the troubled Middle East, an extraordinary promise in a country facing an uprising against an authoritarian system in place for decades. The BBC’s Sue Lloyd-Roberts got into Damascus undercover and met those who are trying to bring about a revolution there.

During the Arab spring this year, governments in Egypt and Syria were able to cut off their citizens from the Internet and mobile phone networks. Now the U.S. government is financing technologies for dissidents to circumvent these communication black-outs.

Egypt’s move to relax restrictions at the country’s border with the Gaza strip has rattled the Israeli government, which has already been watching the Arab Sprig uprisings with caution.

We sat down with Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who launched a Facebook page that became the online heart of the Egyptian revolution. Should the U.S. support the opposition in Libya?

In his speech about the Middle East and North Africa, President Obama outlined massive aid packages to fledgling Middle East and North African democracies and lay out what he believes will be the foundations for peace between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors.

A decade ago, many in the Arab world saw Osama bin Laden as an important figure. But Journalist Anthony Shadid says that the uprisings across the region show that to today’s young people, bin Laden is a historical footnote.

Huge protests brought down Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak earlier this year. One writer explains why he believes the demonstrations may have roots in Egypt’s literature.