Arab Autocrats and Their Foreign Sponsors Are Pretending the Arab Spring Never Happened

Attempts throughout the region to erase the Arab Spring will inevitably fail. The people who came out in millions to protest the status quo will not let its reinforcement to go unchallenged.

by Matthew DeMaio

July 3, 2017 marks the fourth anniversary of the coup that brought down Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammad Morsi, and brought then-General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to power. Since the coup, President Sisi has been at the forefront of efforts to return the Middle East to the pre-Arab Spring status quo. But, rather than …