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This book is a culmination of a quarter-century of interest, research, and teaching about the indigenous Amazigh populations of North Africa and the diaspora. As a scholar, I have been endlessly fascinated by the ways in which Amazigh groups that were systemati..

I initially became interested in exploring protest dynamics in Morocco after conducting an interrupted time series analysis to test the effect that reform and repression had on protest levels in two monarchies that fared well during the Arab Spring: Morocco and..

In 2010, a year before the outbreak of the Arab uprisings, I published a book called Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East in which I discussed how ordinary people—the poor, marginalized women, or youth—could bring a..

When I began researching social movements and protest events in the Middle East and North Africa, I was absolutely awed to learn about the extraordinary risks that activists were taking to advocate for democracy, human rights, and basic social provisions. In an..

When women flamed in protests from Tunisia to Yemen calling for political reforms, the world was quick to proclaim that Arab women had finally risen. Yet we knew that Arab women had been protesting, voting, running for office, and leading organizations since th..

The book stems from the same impulse as my film, The Uprising (2013), which is a montage of online videos produced and posted to the Internet by the frontline actors of the Arab revolutions of 2011 to 2012.

While the 'Islamist idea' will likely endure, the political actors face an existential struggle to survive the onslaught of the past decade

25 January 2011. I was living in downtown Cairo with a grant to research the literary fallout of the 1952 revolution. The uprising against Mubarak swept in and “swept me off my feet.” Like a lot of us, I have been writing about the experience ever ..

What is happening in Sudan and Algeria is not a repetition of Arab springs, but a wave that learns from the lessons and mistakes of the past.

EP. 1 - Chapter 7: Revolution without Revolutionaries

 Interview with Gilbert Achcar on the subject of the continuing consequences of the Arab Spring.

How could I not write it? The outbreak of the uprisings—starting with Tunisia (where no one expected it, except perhaps people like the militant miners of Ghafsa) and then quickly moving to Egypt, then Libya, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain and others—generated an extraordinar..

This book seeks to centralize the role of law in the Arab Spring, and to centralize Arab Spring to major legal and constitutional debates. While much has been written about the political and economic aspects of the Arab Spring, the role of law remains understudied and insufficiently theori..

Late last year York College Galleries in Pennsylvania hosted Arab Spring (Unfinished Journeys), the solo exhibition of artist Helen Zughaib.

The exhibition’s featured paintings, installations, and conceptual works were created between 2008 and 2016. In these years,..

To investigate the trials and tribulations of the phrase “Arab Spring” for English-language audiences since 2010, it may be useful to start with a Google search—or, rather, a quick history of Google search results. If one looks at the top results for English-language searches using the term “Ara..

“Who is that guy?” Barack Obama’s impressive oratorical skills rocketed him onto the national..

Beyond the square. Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings aims to analyze the dialectic relations between political change and urbanization. Based on investigations carried out in the Arab world and the Middle East, it shows the very strong urban dimension of the uprisings that have occurred s..

Alaʾa Shehabi and Marc Owen Jones, editors, Bahrain`s Uprising: Resistance and Repression in the Gulf. London: Zed Books, 2015.

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The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism

New Book by Cihan Tuğal (Verso, 2016)

Date and Time: Tuesday, March 1, 12:30 pm - 1:30pm

Location: The Ha..

Five years after the inspirational uprising in Tunisia that toppled the long dictatorship of Ben Ali, people are back on the streets demanding the fulfilment of the 2011 revolutionary slogan “ jobs, freedom, and national dignity." Last week, at the onset of the 2011 mass uprising, people took to..

Call for Papers

Avenues of Social and Political Change: 

Five Years of Contention in the Middle East and North Africa 

April 8, 2016

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

365 Fifth Avenue, New York City<..

Raymond Hinnebusch, The International Politics of the Middle East, revised second edition. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015.

Jadaliyya (J): What made ..