The Arab revolutions in context : civil society and democracy in a changing Middle East / Benjamin Isakhan, Fethi Mansouri and Shahram Akbarzadeh (editors).
From late 2010 a series of dramatic and unprecedented events swept across the Middle East and North Africa, toppling several autocratic regimes that had held power for decades and ushering in a new climate of dissent and democratisation. The Arab Revolutions in Context seizes a unique opportunity to...
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; The Arab Spring and the coming fall of Orientalism's Tower of Babel; Is it the end of state feminism?; Reinventing wor(l)ds; Social media, social movements and the diffusion of ideas in the Arab Revolutions; The 2011 Bahrain uprising; Syria: Post-Assad?; When it's not time for change; Conclusion; Index.