Democratic Uprisings in the New Middle East

by Mahmood Monshipouri
Democratic Uprisings in the New Middle East
Author: Mahmood Monshipouri
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Arab Spring, 2010-.
ISBN: 9781612051352
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As Egypt retreats from its newly elected government and Syria moves from one crisis to another, this book's reflection on the Arab Spring could not be more timely. Monshipouri's account of the role of emotion, solidarity, and online activism is informed by several trips to the region that continue to this day. Modern technologies and social media, organization on the ground, and challenges to shaping a country's political future after conflict are all essential subjects discussed in this important book, told in an engaging and accessible narrative.

False Dawn

by Steven A. Cook
False Dawn
Author: Steven A. Cook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190611413
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In False Dawn, noted Middle East regional expert Steven A. Cook offers a sweeping narrative account of the tumultuous past half decade, moving from Turkey to Tunisia to Egypt to Libya and beyond. The result is a powerful explanation of why the Arab Spring failed.

Dispatches from the Arab Spring

by Paul Amar
Dispatches from the Arab Spring
Author: Paul Amar
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1452940614
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The Arab Spring unleashed forces of liberation and social justice that swept across North Africa and the Middle East with unprecedented speed, ferocity, and excitement. Although the future of the democratic uprisings against oppressive authoritarian regimes remains uncertain in many places, the revolutionary wave that started in Tunisia in December 2010 has transformed how the world sees Arab peoples and politics. Bringing together the knowledge of activists, scholars, journalists, and policy experts uniquely attuned to the pulse of the region, Dispatches from the Arab Spring offers an urgent and engaged analysis of a remarkable ongoing world-historical event that is widely misinterpreted in the West. Tracing the flows of protest, resistance, and counterrevolution in every one of the countries affected by this epochal change—from Morocco to Iraq and Syria to Sudan—the contributors provide ground-level reports and new ways of teaching about and understanding the Middle East in general, and contextualizing the social upheavals and political transitions that defined the Arab Spring in particular. Rejecting outdated and invalid (yet highly influential) paradigms to analyze the region—from depictions of the “Arab street” as a mindless, reactive mob to the belief that Arab culture was “unfit” for democratic politics—this book offers fresh insights into the region’s dynamics, drawing from social history, political geography, cultural creativity, and global power politics. Dispatches from the Arab Spring is an unparalleled introduction to the changing Middle East and offers the most comprehensive and accurate account to date of the uprisings that profoundly reshaped North Africa and the Middle East. Contributors: Sheila Carapico, U of Richmond; Nouri Gana, UCLA; Toufic Haddad; Adam Hanieh, SOAS/U of London; Toby C. Jones, Rutgers U; Anjali Kamat; Khalid Medani, McGill U; Merouan Mekouar; Maya Mikdashi, NYU; Paulo Gabriel Hilu Pinto, U Federal Fluminense, Brazil; Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College, CUNY; Ahmad Shokr; Susan Slyomovics, UCLA; Haifa Zangana.

The New Arab Wars

by Marc Lynch
The New Arab Wars
Author: Marc Lynch
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1610396103
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Less than twenty-four months after the hope-filled Arab uprising, the popular movement had morphed into a dystopia of resurgent dictators, failed states, and civil wars. Egypt's epochal transition to democracy ended in a violent military coup. Yemen and Libya collapsed into civil war, while Bahrain erupted in smothering sectarian repression. Syria proved the greatest victim of all, ripped apart by internationally fueled insurgencies and an externally supported, bloody-minded regime. Amidst the chaos, a virulently militant group declared an Islamic State, seizing vast territories and inspiring terrorism across the globe. What happened? The New Arab Wars is a profound illumination of the causes of this nightmare. It details the costs of the poor choices made by regional actors, delivers a scathing analysis of Western misreadings of the conflict, and condemns international interference that has stoked the violence. Informed by commentators and analysts from the Arab world, Marc Lynch's narrative of a vital region's collapse is both wildly dramatic and likely to prove definitive. Most important, he shows that the region's upheavals have only just begun -- and that the hopes of Arab regimes and Western policy makers to retreat to old habits of authoritarian stability are doomed to fail.

The Arab Revolts

by David McMurray
The Arab Revolts
Author: David McMurray
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-02-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0253009685
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The 2011 eruptions of popular discontent across the Arab world, popularly dubbed the Arab Spring, were local manifestations of a regional mass movement for democracy, freedom, and human dignity. Authoritarian regimes were either overthrown or put on notice that the old ways of oppressing their subjects would no longer be tolerated. These essays from Middle East Report—the leading source of timely reporting and insightful analysis of the region—cover events in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen. Written for a broad audience of students, policymakers, media analysts, and general readers, the collection reveals the underlying causes of the revolts by identifying key trends during the last two decades leading up to the recent insurrections.

The New Middle East

by Fawaz A. Gerges
The New Middle East
Author: Fawaz A. Gerges
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107028639
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The New Middle East critically examines the Arab popular uprisings of 2011-12.

A Tale of Four Worlds

by Marina Ottaway
A Tale of Four Worlds
Author: Marina Ottaway
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190061715
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About the separate trajectories of the Levant, the Gulf, Egypt and the Maghreb after the Arab Spring uprisings

The Arab Revolution

by Jean-Pierre Filiu
The Arab Revolution
Author: Jean-Pierre Filiu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2011-11-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199898294
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"First published in the United Kingdom in 2011 by C. Hurst & Co."--T.p. verso.

Democratic Transition in the Middle East

by Larbi Sadiki
Democratic Transition in the Middle East
Author: Larbi Sadiki
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136181660
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Popular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power. How society seeks to fill that void, regardless of whether the regime falls or survives, is the common trajectory followed by the seven empirical case studies published here for the first time. This edited volume seeks to unpack the state of the democratic void in three interrelated fields: democracy, legitimacy and social relations. In doing so, the conventional treatment of democratization as a linear, formal, systemic and systematic process is challenged and the power politics of democratic transition reassessed. Through a close examination of case studies focusing on Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, this collection introduces the reader to indigenous narratives on how power is wrested and negotiated from the bottom up. It will be of interest to those seeking a fresh perspective on democratization models as well as those seeking to understand the reshaping of the Arab Middle East in the lead-up to the Arab Spring.