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  title info:
    title: Dispatches from the Arab spring
    sub title: understanding the new Middle East
  name:
    name part: Amar, Paul (Paul Edouard)
    name part: 1968-
  name:
    name part: Prashad, Vijay.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2013
    copyright date: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 391 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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 Rejecting outdated and invalid (yet highly influential) paradigms to analyze the region--from depictions of the "Arab street" as a mindless, reactive mob to the belief that Arab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.
  table of contents: Introduction: Revolutionizing the Middle East / Paul Amar and Vijay Prashad -- Tunisia / Nouri Gana -- Egypt / Paul Amar -- Bahrain / Adam Hanieh -- Saudi Arabia / Tony C. Jones -- Yemen / Sheila Carapico -- Algeria / Susan Slyomovics -- Morocco / Merouan Mekouar -- Libya / Anjali Kamat and Ahmad Shokr -- Syria / Paulo Gabriel Hilu Pinto -- Jordan / Jillian Schwedler -- Lebanon / Maya Mikdashi -- Palestine / Toufic Haddad -- Iraq / Haifa Zangana -- Sudan / Khalid Mustafa Medani.
  note: Paul Amar and Vijay Prashad, editors.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: ma-----
  subject:
    topic: Arab Spring, 2010-
  subject:
    geographic: Arab countries
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
  classification: JQ1850.A91 D58 2013
  classification: 909/.097492708312
  identifier: 9780816689989 (hardback)
  identifier: 0816689989 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780816690121 (pb)
  identifier: 081669012X (pb)
  identifier: 2013018884
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130613
    record change date: 20151206085218.0
    record identifier: in00003339839