Ten years ago this week the Arab uprisings arrived in Syria, with large demonstrations marking the culmination of weeks of brewing unrest. In the fifth piece of his series on the uprisings, David Wearing looks at how the attempted revolution in Syria became a full-blown war.
Curiously absent from discussions of #OprahMeghanHarry is the shadowy body that empowers the Crown to interfere in modern democracy, writes Kojo Koram.
Ten years ago today, regime security forces in Bahrain attacked unarmed protesters camped at Pearl Roundabout, Manama. In the third piece of his series on the Arab uprisings, David Wearing looks at how the UK helped crush Bahrain’s pro-democracy movement.
Despite the immense gains made by Rojava's revolutionary project over the last eight years, it is lagging behind on ecological measures. To understand why, Matt Broomfield traces the delicate balance of geopolitical power in the region.
In the heady days of 2011, the talk was of ‘revolution’ sweeping the Arab majority world. In the second piece of a series on what these events can teach us about Western imperialism in the twenty-first century, David Wearing takes a look how the uprisings were thwarted.
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