BBC News Middle East Protests

20 February 2011 Last updated at 14:16 ET

Overview

  • Tehran, Tiananmen and TahrirWho started it?

    How revolutions actually happen - the patterns that unite them.

  • A boy sits atop an army tank during a victory celebration in Tahrir Square, Cairo, 18 February 2011In pictures

    Images from around the Middle East as protests continue.

  • Protests in SanabisYour stories

    BBC News website readers in Middle East give their accounts.

  • Protesters near a shop with a spray painted word Twitter in CairoInternet role

    How social networking sites are fuelling the protests.

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