Is a sub-Saharan ‘African Spring’ in the offing?
The success of the anti-government demonstrations in Kenya is inspiring others in the region to take action.
![Alaa Abdel Fattah at his home in Cairo on May 17, 2019 [File: Khaled Desouki/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/gettyimages-1147419612-594x594-1.jpg?resize=570%2C380&quality=80)
![Saied sacked the government and seized wide-ranging powers on July 25, 2021 [File: Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-26T010355Z_1569270173_RC21SO9FAUX4_RTRMADP_3_TUNISIA-POLITICS-PRESIDENT-PROFILE-1.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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Egypt’s first post-Mubarak ruler, Hussein Tantawi, dies aged 85
Egypt’s former military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi has died aged 85, Egypt’s presidency said.
How photographing Yemen during the uprising changed me
Taking an award-winning photo helped one Spanish photographer connect with a country rarely seen beyond the stereotypes.
![Fatima al-Qaws hugs her wounded son, Zayed, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by anti-government demonstrators in Sanaa, Yemen, on October 15, 2011. This photo won the World Press Photo award in 2012 [File:Samuel Aranda/The New York Times]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/memory.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
‘Defining moment’: What’s next for Tunisia’s Ennahdha?
Tunisia’s largest parliamentary party faces an existential threat after President Saied assumed executive powers.
![Supporters of the Ennada party march with Tunisian flags during a rally in Tunis [File: Hassene Dridi/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/AP21058615610356.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Life and death at the Dar Al Shifa hospital on Aleppo’s front line
Revisiting five months in a hospital that was at the heart of Syria’s rebellion.
![In a photo from November 29, 2012, night falls on a rebel-controlled area of Aleppo as destroyed buildings, including Dar Al Shifa hospital, are seen on Sa'ar street after airstrikes had targeted it a week before [Narciso Contreras]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CONTRERAS_die_together_01.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Photographing Ali, Aleppo, and the ‘mother of all battles’
A photojournalist who covered Syria’s civil war tells the story of a young rebel fighter he met.
![Ali, a rebel fighter, gestures for victory after firing a shoulder-fired rocket towards a building where Syrian troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad were hiding as they attempted to gain terrain against the rebels during heavy clashes in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria, on November 4, 2012 [Narciso Contreras]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HL_CONTRERAS_war_in_syria-18.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Alephia 2053: Animated thriller strikes a chord in Arab world
Set in 2053, it follows group of undercover agents plotting to take down hereditary ruler.
![The film's creator says it is not inspired by any single Arab country but depicts conditions familiar to many across the world [Joseph Eid/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/000_98F3YD.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
‘Yemen’s uprising was magical, spiritual, powerful’
But that all changed when government forces fired on peaceful protesters. A Yemeni demonstrator remembers that day.
![Children join a protest in Change Square, Sana’a, in August 2014 before president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi left the country [Laura Silvia Battaglia/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_5841.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
The Arab Spring has been misunderstood
A decade after the Arab Spring, Westerners’ perceptions of events and Arabs’ perceptions of themselves remain muddled.
![Protesters demonstrate against Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunis on January 14, 2011 [File: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/RTXWKI3.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Photographing the final days of Gaddafi and his last stronghold
A photojournalist describes capturing some of the most memorable moments of the war in Libya.
![Anti-Gaddafi fighters from Benghazi engage in a firefight with snipers who are loyalists to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi during a street fight in Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, Libya, on October 19, 2011 [Mauricio Lima]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ML02.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
A cry for mercy: A snapshot of Aleppo during Syria’s uprising
“He carried his son – the same way he had many times before – crossing the hall to the front door, where he crumbled.”
![A Syrian man cries while holding the body of his son near Dar Al Shifa Hospital in Aleppo. The boy was killed by the Syrian army [File: Manu Brabo/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Aleppo-Syria-Oct-3-2012.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
