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Tunisia's Saied unpicks young 'Arab Spring' democracy

President Kais Saied has proposed a new constitution that would formalise his sweeping seizure of powers after dismantling much of Tunisia's young democracy over 11 turbulent months.

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Tunisia's Saied unpicks young 'Arab Spring' democracy

President Kais Saied has gathered nearly all state power in his hands after dismantling much of Tunisia's young democracy over 11 turbulent months. But as he prepares for a referendum to approve his changes, challenges loom ever larger.

Reuters

Former Louvre director charged over suspected antiquities trafficking ring

The former head of Paris's Louvre Museum, Jean-Luc Martinez, has been charged with conspiring to hide the origin of Egyptian archeological treasures that police suspect were smuggled out of the country during the Arab Spring uprisings.

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Swiss prosecutors drop Arab Spring probe of Egyptians, unfreeze millions

Swiss federal prosecutors have dropped an 11-year investigation into suspected money-laundering by Egyptians close to toppled strongman Hosni Mubarak during the Arab Spring uprisings, they said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Iraq food protests against spiralling prices echo early stages of the Arab Spring

Iraq has been seeing protesters take to the streets as food prices spiral upwards because of the Ukraine war. Around 500 people protested in Iraq’s southern city of Nasiriyah a few days ago as flour suddenly rose in price by nearly a third. With food-related protests subsequently taking place in…

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Kuwait's pardoned dissidents return to a country in crisis

Dissidents still languish in prison or exile and authorities have snuffed out all hints of opposition over a decade after uprisings known as the Arab Spring reached autocratic sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf

The Independent UK

Poetry, political resistance & pulsing beats: Abdullah Miniawy and the Carl Gari trio

Their musical collaboration fuses literature and electronica, offering a new artistic take on events from the Arab Spring to contemporary European politics. Poet Abdullah Miniawy and musician Jonas Yamer join us in the studio to tell us more about the creation of their latest album "Between the bullet and the…

France 24

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Why conservatives rule on social media

Gal Beckerman explains how social movements like the Arab Spring were undermined by the very tool that enabled them

Salon

Fears of a lurch to dictatorship blight Arab Spring’s last hope

TV talk-show host Amer Ayad was expecting a backlash after he used his platform to portray Tunisia’s president as an aspiring dictator. But even he was stunned by its severity.

Tribune News Service

Turkey’s President Erdogan visits UAE as relations thaw after icy decade

Recep Erdogan’s trip to Abu Dhabi shows relations are improving despite tensions after Arab Spring

The Independent UK

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