arab spring

It was their own Arab Spring. Several women in Cairo unhappy with their low wages as bus monitors made the bold move of complaining to the school board. They were lucky that Rana el Kaliouby was there to hear them -- and to do something about it....

It’s open-mic night at a cultural center in the Pakistani city of Lahore. A group of young comedians takes the stage and asks the audience to suggest figures for them to poke fun at, using the tag-line “the world’s worst…” Somebody shouts out “terrorist!”...

Here are the stories of two Syrian Americans turned activists: An immunologist in Chicago who spent 12 years being tortured by the Assad regime and is just now speaking out. And a poet in Arkansas who decided to take a risk and boarded a plane ...

Syria burns and the West squirms as Russia takes its turn during talks in Damascus. The Russians called for "peace and harmony." That seems to involve a lot of shelling. Syrians are hoping to avoid a repeat of the Hama massacre. ...

Twitter, the darling of protest movements, now faces the ire of activists angry about its new censorship rules. There are smiles in the Queen's palace in Bangkok, but frowns in a lot of other places....

The Islamists won the elections in a landslide. The military are still in control. And the young revolutionaries who sparked the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak? They're still protesting and they're using the media to channel their discontent ...

The Coptic Christmas celebrations this weekend come at a time of unprecedented political upheaval. What will the Islamist victory at Egypt's elections mean for the Middle East's largest Christian community? Two Copts tell us what they are going to do. ...