Arab Spring

25 ViZionaries: Amjad Taha - No. 10

A prominent Arab voice supporting Israel-Arab normalization

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Amjad Taha, Arab voice supporting Israel-Arab normalization
A demonstrator holds empty tear gas canisters during a protest over the deteriorating economic situation, in Riad al-Solh Square in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2023. PremiumPremium

The Arab Spring is dead, and a new social contract has replaced it - analysis

Across the Arab world in 2026, ideology is giving way to pragmatism, as publics prioritize stability, security, and economic delivery over reform

|BySAGIV STEINBERG
Dutch Education, Culture and Science Gouke Moes and the Egyptian Ambassador to the Netherlands during the formal handover ceremony of the stolen scultpure at the Egyptian embassy in the Hague, February 8, 2026.

Netherlands returns 3,500-year-old sculpture stolen from Egypt during Arab Spring

Egypt requested that the artifact be returned under the 1970 UNESCO Convention, which both it and the Netherlands are beholden to. 

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Yemeni children play soccer at a displaced persons camp in Marib, Yemen, October 29, 2024.

Yemen’s fractured power struggle deepens its humanitarian, political crisis - opinion

As Yemen fractures between competing power centers, millions face poverty and hunger.

|ByNEVILLE TELLER

Is Gaddafi’s son returning to politics?

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, while hiding in the vast southern Libyan desert, was captured by the powerful Zintan armed militia in November 2011.

JULY 27, 2016ByARIEL BEN SOLOMON
SAIF AL-ISLAM GADDAFI, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and chairman of the Al Qaddafi International Foundation for Charity and Development, addresses students and staff at the American University in Cairo, in 2010.

A Movement To End The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

JULY 14, 2016ByDR. ALON BEN-MEIR
The Jerusalem Post

Will Assad survive?

MAY 10, 2016ByNEVILLE TELLER
The Jerusalem Post

Senator Leiberman weighs in on America’s retreat from the Middle East, and global responsibilities

FEBRUARY 26, 2016ByDAVID TURNER
The Jerusalem Post

Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office indicts 16-year-old Arab girl for attempted murder

East Jerusalem teen attacked Border Police officer stationed at Damascus Gate with kitchen knife.

FEBRUARY 17, 2016ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
The knife used in a stabbing attack near Damascus Gate.

IDF unit shoots dead 2 West Bank terrorists in exchange of fire

The incident began when an IDF lookout position spotted two Palestinian hurling rocks near the security fence located north of Jenin, in the area of Arake village.

FEBRUARY 14, 2016ByYAAKOV LAPPIN
Security forces at a checkpoint near Jenin

Is this Palestine's Arab Spring?

JANUARY 2, 2016ByDAVID ALLOUCHE
The Jerusalem Post

Lowering the bar

Arab Israelis remain destined to play the role of usual suspects forever called on to prove their allegiance to Israel.

DECEMBER 28, 2015ByILAN MANOR
An Israeli Arab casts her ballot at a polling station inside a church in the northern town of Reineh

Five years later: How the US and EU failed the Arab Spring

Analysis on the debate surrounding the Arab revolts tends to center on basic human nature.

DECEMBER 20, 2015ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
People stand on a bridge overlooking the river Nile as many Egyptians walk on the streets with Egyptian flags in Cairo

‘Arab Spring and Iranian threat have opened way for improved Arab-Israel relations’

Jordanian think tank: No fear of Islamic State in kingdom.

DECEMBER 10, 2015ByARIEL BEN SOLOMON
A MILITARY truck carrying a missile and a picture of Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei drives in a parade marking the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war in Tehran