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Title:

Taking to the streets : the transformation of Arab activism / edited by Lina Khatib and Ellen Lust.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiii, 351 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Arab countries--Politics and government--21st century.
Arab Spring, 2010-
Protest movements--Arab countries.
Social movements--Arab countries.
Revolutions--Arab countries.
Democratization--Arab countries.

Other Authors:

Khatib, Lina (Lina H.), editor.
Lust, Ellen, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

1421413124 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781421413129 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1421413116 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421413112 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)862148755

LCCN:

2013027752

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)