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I recall the streets of the Egyptian Revolution thirteen years ago. People mobilized themselves and their tools to reimagine global networks of power. A global vision was at the core of their practices. For Alaa Abd el-Fattah, an incarcerated Egyptian political activist, writer, and coder, the E..

The Egyptian revolution of 2011 is not only a watershed episode in Middle Eastern political history but also a curious case from the perspective of scholarship. It has been the subject of extensive analysis – perhaps not since the 1979 Iranian revolution have so many reports, articles, and books..

We’ll Play till We Die is a continuation and deepening of the stories and relationships that I chronicled in Heavy Metal Islam, published in 2008. This book picks up where Heavy Metal Islam left off and conti..

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..

The political reality of life in Palestine drove me to engage in this book. I witnessed the hunger strike and participated in solidarity with the prisoners’ cause before starting my research in 2014. I wanted to understand the revolutionary transformation that ..

Sitting in Beirut, amidst the wreckage of economic and financial collapse, the repercussions of the August 4, 2020 explosion, and a healthcare system that has—along with other sectors—succumbed to these forces and to the ongoing pandemic, I wonder how the countrywide uprising that began in..

On 12 February 1979, a day after the victory of the Iranian revolution, Rana Javadi, a 24-year-old photographer responsible for some of the most iconic images we now have of the Iranian revolution, was walking the streets of Tehran, camera in hand, when she came across this scene in front of a p..

I wanted to reconstruct what happened in Egypt’s uprising. Soon after Hosni Mubarak was ousted on February 11, 2011, explanations focused on why it was bound to happen. Then they shifted to ample critiques of Egypt’s dysfunctional transition.

My plan for this edited book was the result of three factors. The first factor relates to the time I was conducting research for my doctoral dissertation in different archival locations and libraries in the United States and the United Kingdom, and particularly durin..

For scholars and analysts of Algeria, this is both a fascinating and worrying time. Many of us have an emotional connection to the country and personal attachments to friends and colleagues involved in the Hirak. Many of us are also anxious about the possibility that state viole..

On Thursday 17 October 2019, thousands of exasperated Lebanese citizens took to the streets of Beirut in protest. The spark was the government’s latest plan to impose taxes on the popular and free app..

The central question of the book—what it means to give to God by way of giving to the poor—goes back to my longstanding fascination with all things invisible. More concretely, my earlier work on dreams and visions in Egypt had led to my interest in Islamic char..

On Friday 25 October, Iraqi demonstrators returned to the streets in planned and anticipated protests. Despite assurances from Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi that demonstrators would be permitted to protest peacefully, state forces and parastatal armed groups responded with brutality.

Without a doubt, I was inspired by my previous research on the under-studied and neglected impacts of the Iranian militant Left on the country’s politics and society in the 1960s to 1970s, as well as their contributions to political theory.

22 - 23 March 2019
Issam Fares Institute
American University of Beirut (Facing the Green Oval)

When asked to devise a reading list on postrevolutionary Iran, it became apparent to Keshavarzian that by “essential” he could neither be comprehensive, nor was he interested in devising some sort of rank ordering of scholarship.  Instead, once Keshavarzian began con..

In 1979, the world’s first theocratic state, born through a popular revolution, came to power in Iran. An entirely brand-new generation of elite, led by a charismatic cleric, held the reins of power and mystified their own citizens and the world by creating a Byzanti..

The past several years have brought into focus dominant ways that sexual and bodily rights are framed, gendered, and politicized in the Middle East in mainstream western media. These can be grouped under three loose themes, each of which deserves further study.

In this interview with STATUS/الوضع host Adel Iskander, artist Heba Y. Amin discusses and reflects on her most jarring works, which include hacking the set of televions seri..

Part 1: Why Fanon? The Indispensability of Thought and the Urgency of Action

Palestine is in the throes of revolt. It started with protests and demonstrations at the presence of Israeli “Temple Mount” activis..

Text and Photos by Heba Khamis
Translated by Eman Hashim

Whether as a revolutionary activist chanting at protests or as an attorney advocating on behalf of the underprivileged in the courtroom, Mahienour Al-Masry is a strong voice defending social justice and fighting polic..

Reem Abou-El-Fadl, editor, Revolutionary Egypt: Connecting Domestic and International Struggles. London and New York: Routledge, 2015.      

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Chiara Sebastiani, Una città, una rivoluzione. Tunisi e la riconquista dello spazio pubblico. Co..