Arab Uprisings: Special Topics

The book explores the current debate about education in the Middle East and North Africa post-Arab Spring. It draws from a variety of conceptual frameworks rooted in different disciplines and fields, such as education, religious and cultural studies, political science, and Arab studies.
The book is, in part, a response to an increased demand since the Arab Spring – by universities, cultural institutions, think-tanks, education officials, policymakers and journalists – for a richer, deeper understanding of the role of education in post-Arab Spring states and societies.

Popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have had a deep impact, not only on the societies and political structures in the respective countries there, but also on different academic disciplines. The book provides a view of the transformation of the academic landscape in the aftermath of these uprisings. It analyses how the academic discourse in and on the MENA region has changed and reflects on how the aforementioned transformation processes, which are still ongoing, are shaping lines of inquiry in different disciplines, including political science, Arabic literature and language studies, philosophy, communication studies, sociology, computer studies and archaeology.

The book offers a comprehensive analysis of the impact that new and draft constitutions and amendments - such as those in Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia - have had on the transformative processes that drive constitutionalism in Arab countries.

The enormous sense of optimism unleashed by the Arab Spring in 2011 soon gave way to widespread suffering and despair. Challenging the widely shared pessimism among regional experts, Micheline Ishay charts bold and realistic pathways for human rights in a region beset by political repression, economic distress, sectarian conflict, a refugee crisis, and violence against women. With due attention to how patterns of revolution and counterrevolution play out in different societies and historical contexts, Ishay reveals the progressive potential of subterranean human rights forces and offers strategies for transforming current realities in the Middle East.

This book presents a varied and critical picture of how the Arab Spring demands a re-examination and re-conceptualization of issues of transitional justice. It demonstrates how unique features of this wave of revolutions and popular protests that have swept the Arab world since December 2010 give rise to distinctive concerns and problems relative to transitional justice.

Regional artists can play a positive role in shaping public debate and supporting democratic transition in the Middle East. This report explores the challenges artists have faced since the Arab uprisings, U.S. government programs to support arts in the region, and the wide array of nongovernmental activities to engage Arab artists, offering recommendations to improve support for these artists.

Paying particular attention to works from the Tunisian Revolution of 2011, this book examines a diverse body of art including photography, sculpture, graffiti, performance, video and installation by over twenty-five artists. Examining how art can evoke the idea of revolution, Art and the Arab Spring reveals a new way of understanding these revolutions, their profound cultural impact, and of the meaning of the term 'revolution' itself.

. يأخذك الكتاب برحلة إلى كواليس الغرافيتي السياسي، والعملية الطويلة التي يمر بها قبل وصوله إلى الجدران . يتناول الكتاب عمل الغرافيتي أثناء الاحتجاجات التي شهدها أكثر من بلد عربي

The unrests, riots, revolutions, and civil wars throughout the Arab Spring have undoubtedly initiated a series of chain reactions on Arab and African soil. The research in this book analyzes the use of the Internet and social media platforms in Tunisia, Egypt, and Syria, in order to clarify the relevance to the Arab Spring uprisings. (Series: Internet Economics / Internetokonomie - Vol. 8)

Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring brings together some of the most celebrated and respected names in Arab media research to reflect on the communication conditions that preceded and made the Arab uprisings possible.

What is the role of social media on fundamental change in Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa? Online Arab Spring responds to this question, considering five countries: Egypt, Libya, Jordan, Yemen, and Tunisia, along with additional examples. The book asks why the penetration rate for social media differs in different countries: are psychological and social factors at play? Each chapter considers national identity, the legitimacy crisis, social capital, information and media literacy, and socialization.

The book examines the complex role of the Internet, mobile phones, and social networking applications in the Arab Spring. Examining digital media access, level of grievance, and levels of protest for popular democratization in 16 countriesin the Middle East and North Africa, Howard and Hussain conclude that digital media was neither the most nor the least important cause of the Arab Spring. Instead, they illustrate a complex web of conjoined causal factors for social mobilization. Democracy's Fourth Wave examines not only the unexpected evolution of events during the Arab Spring, but the longer history of desperate-and creative-digital activism through the Arab world.

يطمح المؤلف في هذا الكتاب أن يرافقكم في محاولةٍ فصّلها في مقدمة الكتاب محدّداً أهدافها كما غايتها، كي يفي الإعلام أو التواصل عموماً، حقّه، مع الإضاءة على عالمنا نحن: عالم الناطقين باللغة العربيّة والمنتمين بالجغرافيا كما في التاريخ؛ إلى نسيج واحد يطمحُ إلى الأكثر ويستحق الأكثر من إعلامه وإعلانه وتواصله. وفي سياق هذه الرحلة، سنتخيّل معاً وبمادة الإستنتاج الموضوعي المحبوك من الوقائع والمنطق؛ كيف سيكون مستقبل الإعلام العربي؟ كيف سنتواصل في العقود المقبلة؟ هل نبقى كما نحن: من فئة المستهلكين فقط للإعلام وللتواصل؟ أم نرتقي إلى صناعة إعلامنا بأنفسنا؛ ولو في الحد الأدنى وأعني حتماً صناعة المحتوى؟ على هذه الأسس؛ يبدأ مَتْنُ الكتاب… وتبدأ الرحلة.

The book examines new forms and conditions of migrations, such as the transformation of borders, the reconfiguration of transnational communities, the agency of transnational families, new mobilities and diasporas, and transnational networks of humanitarian response. The contributions from a variety of disciplines demonstrate that the reconfiguration of mobilities and the accompanying problem of inhospitable politics towards refugees at different levels, as well as humanitarian responses to it, is one of the major impacts, globally speaking, of the Arab Spring.

اعتمدت هذه الدراسة على الرواية العربية فى دول الربيع العربى تونس - مصر - ليبيا - اليمن - سوريا وهى تقدم قراءة فعلية للأسباب التى كانت نتيجتها الثورة