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  1. After the Arab spring, the struggle continues on a university campus
    A dispute between a secular academic and conservative Islamists threatens the peace at a Tunisian university

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A university administrator takes a stand against religious extremism.
  2. The Arab Revolts Against Neoliberalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
  3. The Arab Spring, the West and Political Islam
    Against The Current vol. 156

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The contemporary Arab political system, until the recent outbreak of Arab revolutions, is the byproduct of a number of domestic, regional and global arrangements and developments in the post-World War II international order.
  4. The Arc of Justice and the Long Run
    Hope, History, and Unpredictability

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds stay dormant far longer than that before some disturbance makes them germinate. Sometimes cause and effect are centuries apart; sometimes Martin Luther King’s arc of the moral universe that bends toward justice is so long few see its curve; sometimes hope lies not in looking forward but backward to study the line of that arc.
  5. How the UAE Tried to Silence a Popular Arab Spring Activist
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Earlier this year (2014), as a wave of counterrevolution and repression continued to roll back popular democratic uprisings across the Middle East, one of the Arab Spring’s most popular online activists found himself sitting in a jail cell.
  6. Jewish human rights group welcomes democratic upsurge in Egypt
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Independent Jewish Voices Canada views the ongoing uprising of the Egyptian people against the dictatorial regime of President Hosni Mubarak as a positive development for Egypt and the rest of the Middle East.
  7. Lineages of the Arab Revolt
    Book Review

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A review of "Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East" by Adam Hanieh.
  8. Mainspring of the Arab Revolt
    A review of Lineages of Revolt by Adam Hanieh

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    This book ought to be read — or better, studied — by every socialist interested in the Middle East.
  9. Mainspring of the Arab Revolt
    A review of Lineages of Revolt by Adam Hanieh

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    This book ought to be read — or better, studied — by every socialist interested in the Middle East.
  10. On Democracy As A Good
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Is democracy good in itself? Exploring the impact of democracy during and after the Arab Spring.
  11. Revolution and counter-revolution take world stage
    Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2011-2012

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Revolution and counter-revolution have forced their way back to the center stage of history. First in Tunisia, then in Egypt, revolutions have opened up tremendous new possibilities and spread the fire of their passion from Libya and across the Arab world to Iran, Europe, the U.S. and China. Counter-revolution has reared its head in many forms as well.
  12. Roads to the Arab Uprisings
    Book review of "The Journey to Tahrir" eds. Sowers and Toensing and "The Arab Revolts" eds. McMurray and Ufheil-Somers

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The strength of all the essays in these two collections is that the principal trends the authors analyzed have become critical background to recent events in Egypt and Syria during the summer of 2013, even as the nature of these events continue to shift.
  13. Understanding the counter-revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016).


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