This volume is a lively and scholarly illustrated account of the tumultuous events in key countries in the Middle East and North Africa during and since the period of the Arab Spring that began in December 2010.
Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow in International Relations, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He has written on many aspects of international relations, including on civil resistance against authoritarian regimes, and on foreign military occupations in the Middle East. He served as President of the British Academy, 2009-13. He was born in Penrith in 1940, and educated at Westminster School and at Magdalen College Oxford, where he read Modern History. He was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, 1986-2007. He is married with two grown-up children, and lives in Oxford. His interests include mountaineering and cycling. Dr Michael J. Willis is Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies at St Antony's College, the University of Oxford. Before taking up his current post in Oxford he taught politics at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco for seven years from 1997 to 2004. He was Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College from 2011 to 2014. He has a BA in Modern History and International Relations from Reading University, an MA in International History from the LSE, and a PhD in Middle Eastern Politics from Durham University. His research focuses on the politics, modern history, and international relations of the central Maghreb. Rory McCarthy is completing a DPhil in Oriental Studies at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, where he researches Islamism in contemporary Tunisia. He was formerly a foreign correspondent of the Guardian and was posted in Islamabad, Baghdad, Beirut, and Jerusalem. He studied History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Modern Middle Eastern Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford, and he is the author of Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated: Stories from the New Iraq (Chatto & Windus, 2006). Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of nine books of political writing or 'history of the present' including The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, & Prague, The File: A Personal History, In Europe's Name and, most recently, Facts are Subversive. He writes a widely syndicated column on international affairs in the Guardian and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, amongst other journals. He is currently working on a book about free speech in the age of mass migration and the internet and leads the 13-language Oxford University research project Freespeechdebate.com. Awards he has received for his writing include the George Orwell Prize.
Show moreThis volume is a lively and scholarly illustrated account of the tumultuous events in key countries in the Middle East and North Africa during and since the period of the Arab Spring that began in December 2010.
Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow in International Relations, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He has written on many aspects of international relations, including on civil resistance against authoritarian regimes, and on foreign military occupations in the Middle East. He served as President of the British Academy, 2009-13. He was born in Penrith in 1940, and educated at Westminster School and at Magdalen College Oxford, where he read Modern History. He was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, 1986-2007. He is married with two grown-up children, and lives in Oxford. His interests include mountaineering and cycling. Dr Michael J. Willis is Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies at St Antony's College, the University of Oxford. Before taking up his current post in Oxford he taught politics at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco for seven years from 1997 to 2004. He was Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College from 2011 to 2014. He has a BA in Modern History and International Relations from Reading University, an MA in International History from the LSE, and a PhD in Middle Eastern Politics from Durham University. His research focuses on the politics, modern history, and international relations of the central Maghreb. Rory McCarthy is completing a DPhil in Oriental Studies at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, where he researches Islamism in contemporary Tunisia. He was formerly a foreign correspondent of the Guardian and was posted in Islamabad, Baghdad, Beirut, and Jerusalem. He studied History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Modern Middle Eastern Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford, and he is the author of Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated: Stories from the New Iraq (Chatto & Windus, 2006). Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of nine books of political writing or 'history of the present' including The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, & Prague, The File: A Personal History, In Europe's Name and, most recently, Facts are Subversive. He writes a widely syndicated column on international affairs in the Guardian and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, amongst other journals. He is currently working on a book about free speech in the age of mass migration and the internet and leads the 13-language Oxford University research project Freespeechdebate.com. Awards he has received for his writing include the George Orwell Prize.
Show more1: Chibli Mallat and Edward Mortimer: The Background to Civil
Resistance in the Middle East
2: Michael J. Willis: Revolt for Dignity: Tunisia's Revolution and
Civil Resistance
3: M. Cherif Bassiouni: Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
4: Elham Fakhro: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Bahrain
5: George Joffé: Civil Resistance in Libya during the Arab
Spring
6: Helen Lackner: The Change Squares of Yemen: Civil Resistance in
an Unlikely Context
7: Jacob Amis: Hirak! Civil Resistance and the Jordan Spring
8: Driss Maghraoui: Morocco: Obedience, Civil Resistance, and
Dispersed Solidarities
9: Raymond Hinnebusch, Omar Imady, and Tina Zintl: Civil Resistance
in the Syrian Uprising: From Democratic Transition to Sectarian
Civil War
10: Wendy Pearlman: Palestine and the Arab Uprisings
11: Adam Roberts: Civil Resistance and the Fate of the Arab Spring
Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow in International Relations,
University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College,
Oxford. He has written on many aspects of international relations,
including on civil resistance against authoritarian regimes, and on
foreign military occupations in the Middle East. He served as
President of the British Academy, 2009-13. He was born in Penrith
in 1940, and educated at Westminster School and at Magdalen College
Oxford,
where he read Modern History. He was Montague Burton Professor of
International Relations at Oxford University, 1986-2007. He is
married with two grown-up children, and lives in Oxford. His
interests
include mountaineering and cycling.
Dr Michael J. Willis is Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean
Studies at St Antony's College, the University of Oxford. Before
taking up his current post in Oxford he taught politics at Al
Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco for seven years from 1997 to
2004. He was Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony's
College from 2011 to 2014. He has a BA in Modern History and
International Relations from Reading University, an MA in
International History from the LSE, and a PhD in Middle
Eastern Politics from Durham University. His research focuses on
the politics, modern history, and international relations of the
central Maghreb. Rory McCarthy is completing a DPhil in Oriental
Studies at
St Antony's College, University of Oxford, where he researches
Islamism in contemporary Tunisia. He was formerly a foreign
correspondent of the Guardian and was posted in Islamabad, Baghdad,
Beirut, and Jerusalem. He studied History at Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge, and Modern Middle Eastern Studies at St
Antony's College, Oxford, and he is the author of Nobody Told Us We
Are Defeated: Stories from the New Iraq (Chatto & Windus, 2006).
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of
European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin
Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior
Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the
author of nine books of
political writing or 'history of the present' including The Magic
Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest,
Berlin, & Prague, The File: A Personal History, In Europe's Name
and, most recently, Facts are Subversive. He writes a widely
syndicated column on international affairs in the Guardian and is a
regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, amongst other
journals. He is currently working on a book about free speech in
the age
of mass migration and the internet and leads the 13-language Oxford
University research project Freespeechdebate.com. Awards he has
received for his writing include the George Orwell Prize.
Written in an engaging and accessible style, Civil resistance in
the Arab Spring should be of interest to a wide readership
including scholars, practitioners and students of the Middle East
working in a range of fields.
*Lucy M. Abbott (University of Oxford), International Affairs Book
Reviews*
No other book has explained the Arab Spring so thoroughly. It gives
deep insight in the happenings in each country and explains why the
Arab Spring failed to deliver upon its promises. The contributors
scholarship is unmatched and their work answers many questions that
had not been covered yet. Both experts and students of Middle East
will hugely benefit from this book.
*Kristine Q. Baker, Washington Book Review*
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