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. Tunisia ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The persistence and tenacity of the Tunisian people inspired a domino-effect across North Africa that saw the impossible come to fruition: the dying days of the dictators. The people spoke up, no ...

Mohamedd Bouazizi (March 29, 1984 - January 4, 2011) was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on December 17, 2010 in protest against harassment by municipal authorities. His ...

SEOUL, March 6 (Reuters) - North Korea is facing many of the same issues that led to revolutions from Tunisia and Egypt to Libya, but what are the chances of a similar uprising in the authoritarian ...

As the Arab Spring picked up momentum in 2011, some activists in Nepal tried to engineer what they wanted to call the ‘Chameli Movement’ named after the Nepali word for jasmine. There were op-eds ...

Much is being made about the role that social networking and other technologies played in the mass protests which forced Tunisia’s President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country, ...