Tuesday 15 January 2013

‘Arab Spring’: 2 years on

Tahrirsquare8

By Andrei Ontikov:

"It is two years since the ouster of Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali set off the domino chain of upheavals known as ‘the Arab Spring’. Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh followed Ben Ali in rapid succession, and now Bahrain and Syria are on the wave’s crest. So what next for the Arab world?"