A Personal Account of Reporting on the 2010 Arab Spring

A reporter witnessed all the hope and despair brought by the 2010 Arab Spring revolutions

When a Tunisian street vendor set himself alight in a small town in December 2010, no one could have predicted what would come next: protests across the Arab world, riots that toppled dictators, and civil wars that still rage today. At the time, Moises Saman, an American-Spanish photographer and member of Magnum Photos, accepted a New…