A decade after Arab Spring, autocrats still rule the Middle East
The popular uprisings of 2011 mostly failed, but they gave the region a taste for democracy that continues to whet an appetite for change.
Demonstrators celebrate the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak in February, 2011. The New York Times
A decade ago, crowds massed in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Egypt’s American-backed strongman, President Hosni Mubarak. In Washington, President Barack Obama made a fateful decision, calling on him to leave power.
The backlash from other Arab potentates was swift, Obama recalled in his recent memoir.
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