TED Talks
Dalia Mogahed: The attitudes that sparked Arab Spring
Pollster Dalia Mogahed shares surprising data on Egyptian people's attitudes and hopes before the Arab Spring -- with a special focus on the role of women in sparking change.
The Guardian
Tunisia and the Arab spring 10 years on: 'We tried to rise'
When a young street seller set himself on fire to protest lack of employment opportunities and government corruption, Tunisia became the cradle of the Arab spring revolutions that swept the middle east. Less than a month later, the...
Curated Video
Arab Spring: opportunity or disaster for women?
Thomson Reuters Foundation. "We've learned that rights are not a gift -- we have to snatch them." -- Amira Yahyaoui. "We cannot talk about the revolution in the past because it is not over... For women, I think the Arab Spring has been...
The Guardian
Tunisia and the Arab spring 10 years on: "We tried to rise"
When a young street seller set himself on fire to protest lack of employment opportunities and government corruption, Tunisia became the cradle of the Arab spring revolutions that swept the middle east. Less than a month later, the...
Curated Video
The Math That Predicted the Arab Spring
In this Pilot of Math that Explains the World, Motherboard talks to Yaneer Bar Yam, founder of the New England Complex Systems Institute who used new physics based math to explain the correlation between food supply and the Arab Spring....
The Economist
Why we should laugh at leaders
Political satire can only flourish in a healthy democracy. KAL, the award-winning cartoonist of The Economist, meets one of the most famous figures of the Arab spring—the “Jon Stewart of the Middle East”.
Curated Video
Theme video: Women's rights in the Arab world
A video introduction to the "Women's rights in the Arab world" plenary at the Trust Women conference 2013. In the autum of 2013, Thomson Reuters Foundation surveyed gender specialists across 22 Arab states. The aim was to gauge the state...
The Guardian
I changed Tunisia's history. I regret it all now
Five years ago, in a desperate act of protest against the oppression he faced in Tunisia, fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi killed himself by setting himself on fire. His death prompted protests in his home town of Sidi Bouzid. Hosni Kalaya...
The Guardian
The Amazigh and Tabou People Fight for Recognition and Respect in Libya
Under Gaddafi's rule, the Amazigh and Tabou tribes were prohibited from speaking their language and from giving their children non-Arab names. With Gaddafi gone, they hope things will change but do not expect change to come easily. Learn...
The Guardian
Tunisia's voters go to the polls in Arab spring's first election
People queue to vote as candidates from 110 political parties and scores of independents bid to join Tunisia's new 217-seat government. Turnout in the first free election in Tunisian history was thought to have been high. The Islamist...
The Guardian
Open government in action: Tunisia - Arab Spring
Hedi Ben Abbes, secretary of state for the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Tunisia addresses the Open Government Partnership in Brasilia and speaks to the Guardian's Public Leaders Network about the future of transparency in the country.
Curated Video
Nonviolence and Peace Movements: Crash Course World History 228
In which John Green teaches you about nonviolence and peace movements in the 20th century. What is nonviolence? What is a peace movement? Well. traditionally, humans often resort to violence when they come into conflict. In the 20th...
TED Talks
TED: Let's design social media that drives real change | Wael Ghonim
Wael Ghonim helped touch off the Arab Spring in his home of egypt ... by setting up a simple Facebook page. As he reveals, once the revolution spilled onto the streets, it turned from hopeful to messy, then ugly and heartbreaking. And...
Curated Video
Embedding women's rights into constitutions
Thomson Reuters Foundation. In countries of the Arab Spring, new constitutions offer an opportunity to embed women's rights in the very fabric of the state. But many rights activists have expressed concern that, despite women's major...
The Guardian
A sexual revolution in the Middle East may never happen says 'Sex and the Citadel' author
A sexual revolution in the Middle East may never happen says 'Sex and the Citadel' author Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD In the Arab world, notions of personal choice and individual liberty are commonly subject...
Biography
Muammar al-Qaddafi - Dictator | Mini Bio | BIO
Muammar al-Qaddafi was born in a Bedouin tent in Sirte, Libya, in 1942. He joined the military and staged a coup to seize control of Libya in 1969, ousting King Idris. Though his Arab nationalist rhetoric and socialist-style policies...
Southbank Centre
Web We Want Festival | Digital Dissent The Web in The Middle East
In 2011, the Web and social media in particular was touted as a key component of the uprisings that swept countries during the ‘Arab Spring’, when mass demonstrations in the Arab world – from North Africa to the Gulf – led to political...
Curated Video
Camels, Caleshes, and Tourism in Egypt
There have been many consequences of the political upheaval of the Arab Spring movement in Egypt in 2011. One of them is the severe drop in tourism as a result of the violence. This has hurt the country's camels and horses that used to...
The Guardian
Tunisian elections 2011: canvassing for votes with Ettakatol
Almost 100 political parties are competing in Tunisia's historic general election on 23 October, the first since the Arab spring. We follow Mohammed Al Faiz al Fakhfah, a member of Ettakatol, one of Tunisia's leading centre-left parties,...
The Guardian
Tunisian election 2011: protesters demand freedom of speech
A week before Tunisians vote in their country's historic general election -- the first since the Arab spring -- protesters gathered to demand free speech. Their demonstration was prompted by a series of protests by Islamists against the...
The Guardian
End of year of review 2011: politics - The Guardian
With riots in England, the Arab spring, scandal, protest and a worldwide financial meltdown, 2011 was perhaps the most eventful year in living memory. Jonathan Freedland, Polly Toynbee and Tom Clark pick their winners and losers,...
The Guardian
One Iranian lawyer's fight to save juveniles from execution | Guardian Animations
One Iranian lawyer's fight to save juveniles from execution Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD As part of Amnesty International's 2012 death penalty campaign the Guardian and animators from Sherbet tell the...
The Guardian
Interview with Michael Ross, author of 'The Oil Curse'
Interview with Michael Ross, author of 'The Oil Curse' During the Arab spring, rulers with oil wealth fared better than those without, says Michael Ross, author of The Oil Curse. But, he explains, the discovery of valuable natural...
The Guardian
Samantha Power - Open Government Parnership
Samantha Power talks to the Guardian's Public Leaders Network about the Arab Spring, holding governments to account and what she learnt at the Open Government Partnership meeting in Brasilia