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A crowd of people celebrate with flashes of red, black and green flags waving in the air.

A poem penned during Libya’s 2011 uprising continues to inspire hope

Conflict

Libyan American poet Khaled Mattawa penned “Now That We Have Tasted Hope” in 2011, on the heels of an uprising in Libya that led to the ousting of President Muammar Gaddafi. Looking back, the poem’s message of hope still resonates.

A protester uses his sandal to beat a picture of Egypt's then-President Mohammed Morsi in Tahrir square in Cairo on June 28, 2013.

Some Egyptians are comparing Trump to an unlikely, Islamist figure

Global Politics
A tweet from Iyad el-Baghdadi, a prominent online activist who's now seeking asylum in Norway.

The Arab Spring was no failure, says one activist who refuses to give up

Conflict
"I Too Burned a Police Station" is a Facebook campaign to show solidarity with Tunisian activists still being pursued for crimes committed during the Tunisian revolution.

In Tunisia’s new democracy, authorities are prosecuting the activists who started the revolution

Conflict & Justice