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Taking to the Streets : The Transformation of Arab Activism /
Taking to the Streets critically examines the conventional wisdom that the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings happened spontaneously and were directed by tech-savvy young revolutionaries. Pairing first-hand observations from activists with the critical perspectives of scholars, the book illuminates the conc...
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Baltimore, Maryland :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2014]
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Table des matières:
- Preface / Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah El Alaoui
- Introduction : activism in the Arab world : Arab uprisings and beyond / Lina Khatib and Ellen Lust
- Architecture of resistance in Tunisia / Laryssa Chomiak
- Egypt : a decade of ruptures / Rabab El-Mahdi
- Activism and civil war in Libya / Intissar K. Rajbani and Lihi Ben Shitrit
- Explaining political activism in Yemen / Gamal Gasim
- Activism in Syria : between non-violence and armed resistance / Wael Sawah and Salam Kawakibi
- Activism in Bahrain : between sectarian and issue politics / Laurence Louer
- Morocco's Makhzen and the haphazard activists / Ahmed Benchemsi
- Jordan : evolving activism in a divided society / Janine Clarke and Mohammed Yaghi
- Political activism in Kuwait : reform in fits and starts / Mary Ann Tetreault
- No spring in Riyadh : Saudi Arabia's seemingly impossible revolution / Stephane Lacroix
- Postscript : problems and prospects of democratization in the Arab world / Larry Diamond.