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The Arab Spring
IWPR in-depth coverage of the revolutions and protest movements breaking out across the Middle East provides a platform for Arab journalists and activists to air their views on and analysis of the turmoil.
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A new collection of photographs and texts offers a fresh perspective on the turbulence and conflict that have swept the Middle East and North Africa in the last year and a half. -
Disconnect from conflict on the ground saps confidence in overseas political movement. -
Alarm at downing of Turkish fighter plane, but no appetite for military intervention. -
Rate of shelling has fallen since United Nations team arrived in the area, but locals fear government forces will hit back with a vengeance when monitors leave. -
Number of monitors too small to affect regime’s actions.
Dates active:
2011 to 2012
13 Sep 12
A new collection of photographs and texts offers a fresh perspective on the turbulence and conflict that have swept the Middle East and North Africa in the last year and a half.
5 Jul 12
Disconnect from conflict on the ground saps confidence in overseas political movement.
29 Jun 12
Alarm at downing of Turkish fighter plane, but no appetite for military intervention.
11 Jun 12
Opposition divided between advocates of violent and peaceful means of resolving conflict.
1 May 12
Rate of shelling has fallen since United Nations team arrived in the area, but locals fear government forces will hit back with a vengeance when monitors leave.
1 May 12
Although National Transitional Council has presided over period of calm, critics say it hasn’t lived up to high hopes placed in it.
25 Apr 12
Opposition may be diverse, but it shares common distress about the past and hope for the future.
20 Apr 12
Number of monitors too small to affect regime’s actions.
16 Apr 12
Critics of peace plan warn it might give President Bashar al-Assad breathing space to consolidate control.
26 Mar 12
Local activist describes destruction in villages and indiscriminate killing.
