Pulitzer Center grantees Ellen Knickmeyer and William Wheeler join Arab Spring panel discussion at Elmhurst College.
In collaboration with the University of Chicago, Ellen Knickmeyer, William Wheeler and Marda Dunsky join to discuss the Arab Spring, one year later.
Wartime romance is budding in Libya. After fighting to take down Qaddafi, the country's once least eligible bachelors are now being seen in a new light.
Nine months after the revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, Ellen Knickmeyer revisits two of the first Tunisians to protest against the Ben Ali regime.
Creativity is blooming in Libya--the country's artists are finally able to show their work now that Muammar Qaddafi is no longer in power.
Libya art all but died under Qaddafi. But with the former dictator no longer in power, artists are beginning to display their work in weekly art shows.
A wave of young Saudis are graduating and looking to move into the job market, but most cannot find work--a struggle reflected in the country's 40 percent unemployment rate.
Yemen's political future will depend on its relationship with Saudi Arabia.
This lesson helps students critically examine the factors that led to and sustained the 2010-2011 revolutions in the Middle East.
The freedom to buy lingerie from other women may not sound like much. But activists say it's a start.
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Ellen Knickmeyer is a former Associated Press bureau chief for West Africa and Washington Post bureau chief for Baghdad and Cairo. She received her master’s in public administration from the John F...