Seven Years After the Arab Spring: A Visual Anthology

Seven years ago, a wave of protests swept throughout the Middle East and North Africa -- and rather than fading away, they triggered the massive movement ultimately deemed the Arab Spring. The violence, revolutions and multiple civil wars that followed reshaped the entire region. The Arab Spring's place of origin was Tunisia, a country that emerged from its Jasmine Revolution as a civil-led government with representation from Islamist and secular parties. But the protests spread to more than a dozen countries in the region, taking particularly powerful hold in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria and Yemen. In this visual anthology, we take a look back at some of the memorable images from the Arab Spring demonstrations and their aftermath....