Fair Observer is a website that offers analysis on the Arab Spring, especially on the developments in Egypt. The website is easy to navigate and you can search for analysis by region or topic.

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The New York Review for Books has been publishing some great features on the Arab Spring and this is the most recent one on Tunisia. Get a glimpse into what is taking place there and the larger consequences for the region. Have we stopped to assess the goals of the revolution that all began in Tunisia?

"What were those goals? To move swiftly and in orderly fashion from fifty-five years of homespun dictatorship (following on from four and a half centuries of Ottoman and French colonization) to a popular form of government. To unite Islamists of various stripes, left-wing trade unionists, economic and social liberals, and French-style secularists of the headscarf-banning variety—all without coercion. To correct the historic economic imbalance between the prosperous littoral and the neglected interior. And finally, to find an accommodation between two Tunisian cultures: the first, bucolic, heir to the Mediterranean civilizations whose amphorae litter the country’s archaeological sites; the second, harking to Arabia and Islam—for Tunisia boasts one the oldest places of worship in the Muslim world, the Mosque of Uqba in the holy city of Kairouan, as well as a thriving hard-line Islamic revivalist movement."

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