Many Westerners, watching the revolution in Egypt, are wondering whether the outcome will be true democracy. Less often asked but equally important is whether Egypt can reform its economy in ways that ...

This series examines the countries today from the perspective of our correspondents on the ground to see how the post-revolutionary countries have come full circle to their autocratic ways. Journalism ...

The rich online resource, spearheaded by researcher Nicola Pratt, reveals how culture was “an outlet” for political views during the revolution and its aftermath. NPR's Eric Westervelt looks at the ...

The angry, aggressive crowd formed within minutes of my arrival. Dozens of Muslim men, all in ankle-length galabias, came together in the middle of the dusty dirt path leading to the Church of the Two ...

Growing up in an affluent middle-class family in northern Egypt, Doria El Kerdany could pay for health care and education, but she couldn’t trust it. “To live in a society that is really going ...

February 11 in 2011 was a day that Egyptians had waited decades to see. After less than a month of widespread popular protests, the country’s ruler of 30 years, Hosni Mubarak, stepped down. The Arab ...

Before tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters made history this month by breaking President Hosni Mubarak’s decades-long grip on power, many of Michele Pellam’s students at Boston’s Brighton High ...

A general view shows protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shouting slogans against him and members of the Muslim Brotherhood during a protest at Tahrir square in Cairo June 29, 2013.

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In Arabic class this week, our infamous textbook AlKitaab transitioned from one controversial and politicized topic to the next, the new lesson being about violent Arab revolutions and governments as ...