Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The recent attacks on Coptic churches have prompted President Sisi to declare a state emergency.
The Arab Spring protests upended the order of the Middle East, but six years later much remains the same.
The Middle East is facing what a new study calls a collapsing regional order.
The Trump administration has inherited all of the old challenges from the Middle East, from the conflict in Syria to the self-proclaimed Islamic State to the Iran nuclear deal.
Polarization in the Arab world may be the result of political systems that have opened themselves up to political debate, but not given healthy ways in which to translate political debate into political outcomes.
Trust in democracy and its institutions are essential to the democratic process making recent campaign rhetoric in the United States regarding rigged elections all the more troubling.
In Libya, the government and its network of loosely affiliated militias struggle to defeat the Islamic State while at the same time working to build a functioning Libyan state.
Five years after the onset of the Arab Spring, much of the Middle East is in crisis. However, it may be too early to deem the uprisings a failure.
In the years since the 2011 protests, rebellions have led to renewed repression in some places and chaos in others, but it may be too soon to say that they have failed.
Growing grievances in Tunisia must be dealt with if democracy is to be preserved.