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The Arab Uprisings

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The Arab UprisingsA decade of struggles
Exactly 10 years on, how should we understand the root causes of the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa? This book aims to challenge a number of misconceptions about the region, its people and their revolts and uprisings by having a great selection of contributions from outstanding scholars and activists rooted in the region.
Looking back, looking forward: To inherit a revolutionMiriyam Aouragh & Hamza HamoucheneAuthoritarianism, economic liberalization, and the roots of the 2011 uprisingsAdam HaniehTen years into the Tunisian Revolution: The specificities and limitations of ‘exceptionalism’Ghassen Ben KhelifaThe workers’ movement, revo- lution and counter-revolution in EgyptMostafa Bassiouny & Anne AlexanderThe February 20 Movement in Morocco: Roots of failure and lessons for the futureAli AmouzaiSaudi-UAE interventions: Arms, aid and counter-revolutionRafeef ZiadahThe Syrian revolt and the politics of breadYasser MunifWhy “it hasn’t fallen yet”?: Lessons from the Sudanese revolutionMuzan AlneelThe 2019 Iraqi uprising and the feminist imaginationZahra AliThe new Algerian revolution and Black Lives Matter: A Fanonian perspectiveHamza HamoucheneLebanon and Iraq in 2019: Revolutionary uprisings against ‘sectarian neoliberalism’Rima MajedAfterwordLaleh KhaliliBiographies