LibGuides: Arab Uprisings: Overview

Timelines and Maps

Arab Spring an Interactive Timeline
Interactive Timeline of Middle Eastern Protests from the Guardian (20 Oct. to 12 Dec. 2011)
Cairo protests: an interactive map
Massive demonstrations in Cairo, and other Egyptian cities, after Mubarak's refusal to resign. From the Guardian.
Timeline from ALJazeera:
A chronicle of the revolution that ended the three-decade-long presidency of Hosni Mubarak.
BBC News - Arab Uprising: Country by country
CNN Unrest in the Arab world
Egypt Timeline: Since the Arab Uprising
United States Institutes of Peace (Tuesday, July 2, 2019)
The Arab Spring continues: An Interactive Timeline
خط زمني للثورة الليبية 2011
خط زمني للحرب الأهلية السورية (سبتمبر–ديسمبر 2011)
الخط الزمني لأحداث الثورة المصرية 2011

Public Opinions and Polls

Arab Opinion Index Report 2011
Results of the 2012/2013 Arab Opinion Index
Polling Report
Polling Report: Click on "Middle East" for polls on the Arab Spring and Middle East.
World Public Opinion
Explore world opinion on the Middle East and North Africa
Pew Research Center
Middle East and North Africa
Brookings Institution
Middle East and North Africa
858: an archive of resistance
Hundreds of hours of footage shot collected in Egypt around the revolution.
Arab Reform Initiative
Projects, publications, analysis, opinions, and more.

Multimedia

Selected photos, videos...

Revolution in Egypt: 18 Days that Shook the World
Arab and Middle East Unrest Gallery photos from the Guardian
Revolution 2011 - The Arabian Spring!
The Arab Awakening: A series of films exploring the roots of the uprisings
PhotoBlog.com Syria
Revolution Graffiti - Street Art of the New Egypt
Media Coverage in the Middle East

News and Reports from Jadaliyya

Jadaliyya
E-magazine from Arab Studies Institute.
Report on Jadaliyya's Conference on Teaching the Middle East after the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolution

Daily and Weekly News

The Guardain
Middle East and North Africa: Arab and Middle East unrest
Arab World Uprisings: A Country-by-Country Look

Sada = صدى
The New Reform Bulletin from Carnegie Middle East Center

Roots of Unrest in the Arab World
The Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) third annual report on the state of human rights in the Arab world in 2010, with a special focus on 12 countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Iraq, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Yemen.

Essays and Reports

Use CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online to search for reports and studies produced by think tanks.

Selected Documents

Arab Awakening: Are the US and EU Missing the Challenge? (Atlantic Council)
Atlantic Council of the United States. June 2012
Arab Uprising: new opportunities in political science (POMEPS)
A special POMEPS Briefing collecting nearly two dozen of the memos written by academic political scientists and Middle East specialists.
Categorical Revolution: Democratic Uprising in the Middle East (EPW)
European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed): Arab Spring
Egypt's Transition (Carnegie )
In the Middle of the Storm: Development and Governance in the Arab World (Wilson Center)
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Interpreting the Arab Spring/ Brookings Institution
Eighth Annual Raymond Aron Lecture Featuring Oliver Roy and Tom Friedman
Contentious politics since the ‘Arab Spring (Chatham House)
Arab Spring: Middle East and North Africa (CFR)
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Lesson Plan: Writing about the Arab Spring (Pulitzer)
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting:
Middle East & North Africa (International Crisis Group)
Political Aspects of the Tribal Phenomenon in Arab Societies
Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies - المركز العربي للابحاث و دراسة السياسات (Qatar Institute)
Reflections on Citizen Revolt in the Middle East (Carnegie)
Carnegie Endowment Transcript Rami Khoury, Karim Makdissi, Rami Zurayk, Rima Afifi.
Region in Turmoil (CSIS)
Center for Strategic & Int'l Studies (CSIS)
Rethinking the Arab "Spring": Stability and Security in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and the Rest of the MENA Region (CSIS)
Revolution in the Arab World (FP)
The Arab Spring in North Africa: origins and prospects
by George Joffé, published in The Journal of North African Studies, 12/2011, Volume 16, Issue 4, pp. 507 - 532.
The Huffington Post
الثورات العربية في مواجهة التحديات العلمية والتعليمية
المركز العربي للابحاث و دراسة السياسات
الثورة التونسية 2011
المعرفة
الثورة الليبية 2011
المعرفة
الثورة المصرية 2011
المعرفة
سوريا Syria Page in Jadaliyya
يوميات تحت حكم العسكر

Social Media: blogs, twitter, feeds...

Agenda25
Mobile news application
All4Syria
Angry Arab News Service: As'ad AbuKhalil blog
A source on politics, war, the Middle East, Arabic poetry and art.
Arab COM
Reviews, analysis, studies and opinions on Arab media and politics, the communications industry, the social networks and blogosphere.
Arab Democracy Index
Arab Spring - The Ultimate Social Media Guide
Articles from Mondoweiss: The War of Ideas in the Middle East
CounterPunch
Tells the Facts, Names the Names: Arab Spring
Mondoweiss: Middle East
provide news and analysis unavailable through the mainstream media
Qifa Nabki = قفا نبكي
Qifa Nabki [ˈki-fə ˈneb-kē] is a blog about Levantine politics, history, and culture
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt a Year after January 25th
The Tahrir Forum: A blog on Middle East Transformation
كلنا خالد سعيد

Selected Conferences, Workshops..

Arab Revolutions and Beyond: Change and Persistence
Proceedings of the International Conference Tunisia (12-13 November 2013)
Audiences, media environments and democratization after the Arab spring
Conference organized by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (February 28-March 1, 2013)
"Inverted World" Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region
Organized by the Orient Institute Beirut (October 4-8, 2012).
The Arab Spring: Implications and Opportunities For Canada
Summer Conference held by the Couching Institute on Public Affairs (August 9-12, 2012)
Tenth Annual conference of Arab Thought Foundation - Arab Spring: What’s Next?
ماذا بعد الربيع؟ المؤتمر السنوي العاشر لمؤسّسة الفكر العربي (December 5-7, 2011)
The Middle East in Revolt: the First Anniversary
Conference organized by The University of Melbourne (March 17-18, 2012)
Reform and Transitions to Democracy
Conference organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (January 2012)
The Arab Spring: Socio-Economic Challenges and the Role of Europe
Summary report of the Conference jointly organized by the National Council for Economics and Labour (CNEL), the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Institute for International Affairs (IAI). (December 2011)
The Arab World is changing
Conference organized by the Arab Reform Initiative and Bibliotheca Alexiandrina (December 12-13, 2011)
City/State/Resistance. Spaces of protest in the Middle East and Mediterranean
Workshop organized by the Royal Holloway - University of London (December 2011)
Ways to strengthen the Democratic Transformation of Egypt
Conference held by the Cairo Institute for Human Right Studies in partnership with the Madrid-based think tank FRIDE (August 26-27, 2011)
Democratic Transition Challenges: Egypt in a Comparative Perspective
Seminar organized by the Arab Forum for Alternatives and the European Union Institute for Security Studies (May 28-29, 2011)
Addressing the Past, Building the Future: Justice in Times of Transition
Conference set up by the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). Check the conference program. (April 14-15, 2011)