Fifteen years on, repression is deeper, dissent is criminalised, but democracy is still the public demand.
Fifteen years on, governments have outlawed protest, managed elections, and rewritten constitutions to ensure 2011 never happens again.
By Mohamad Elmasry
Professor in the Media Studies program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
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Fifteen years after revolution took hold, little remains of the hopes that ignited a region.
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