MENA Unbound: Ten Years after the Arab Spring, Avoiding Another Lost Decade

Ferid Belhaj, World Bank |

Photo by Srdjan Popovic on Unsplash

The “Arab Spring” led to the fall of governments in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. But as we now know, the wave crashed into a maelstrom of disillusionment, political opportunism, authoritarianism, violence, and civil war. A decade after those dramatic events, what happened to dignity and freedom? What happened to economic opportunities? And are the youth of the MENA region better off today than they were a decade ago?

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