Lexington Books
Pages: 248
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-4723-9 • Hardback • January 2017 • $105.00 • (£70.00)
978-1-4985-4724-6 • eBook • January 2017 • $99.50 • (£65.00)
Daniel Křížek is lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at University of West Bohemia.
Jan Záhořík holds a PhD in African history from Charles University.
Chapter 1. Introduction, Daniel Křížek and Jan Záhořík
Chapter 2. From Revolution to Disillusion: The Story of Egyptian Youths within the Arab Spring, Dina Abdelrahman
Chapter 3. Competing Perspectives on Women’s Rights Before and After the Arab Spring: The View from Tunisia, Ola Raddaoui
Chapter 4. The Legacy of Sidi Bouzid: Overcoming Spatial Inequalities in Tunisia, Maximilian Benner
Chapter 5. Winter Still for LGBT Individuals in the Maghreb After the Arab Spring?, Ncube Gibson
Chapter 6. From Khaled Said to Moaz al-Kasasba: Critical Thoughts on the Role of New Media in the Arab Uprisings, Zbyněk Tarant
Chapter 7. Regionalism in MENA in Arab Spring and Post Arab Spring Milieu: Problems and Prospects, Muhammad Atif Khan
Chapter 8. North African Arab Spring in the Czech Dailies, Veronika Sobotková
Chapter 9. ‘Ali ‘Abd al-Raziq and the Politics of Secularism: Breaking the Islamist-Liberal Impasse, Christian Donath
Chapter 10. Demotic Legitimacy and Modernization: A Case for Optimism about Islamic Democracy, Alexander Maxwell
Daniel Křížek and Jan Záhořík’s Beyond the Arab Spring in North Africa examines different angles of the Arab Spring and its consequences from historical, political, economic, and social viewpoints. It provides insights into the local, regional, and global aspects of the events, and brilliantly highlights the tensions between the different discourses, ideas, and ideologies that evolved in this revolutionary era. By including chapters that highlight the role of youth, women, the LGBTI community, and others in this revolution, this book offers an important and unique contribution to the shelf of books on the Arab Spring. This book is highly readable for both the academic and the more casual reader, and is a necessary read for anyone who wishes to broadly understand the complexity of recent years’ developments in North Africa.
— Irit Back, Tel Aviv university
Is the wind of change in the Arab world really over? From different disciplinary perspectives, Beyond the Arab Spring in North Africa investigates from within the revolutionary path of the North African societies. Of particular worth is the interlinking narrative among individual and collective rights, religion and media, and youth and women. A remarkably accurate and readable analysis of the Arab Spring and its aftermath.
— Antonio M. Morone, Pavia University