Tag Archives: Arab Spring

Soon after the mass upris­ings across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) broke out, West­ern com­ment­at­ors lauded the situ­ation as the first steps towards the tri­umph of demo­cracy. Sup­por­ted by European and US rhet­oric about the right to self-determination, the ‘Arab Spring’ was sup­posed to sweep through the region, top­pling author­it­arian rulers and estab­lish­ing fair and account­able gov­ern­ments in ...