Social movements, mobilization, and contestation in the Middle East and North Africa / / edited by Joel Beinin and Frederic Vairel.

• Superior document: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
• TeilnehmendeR: Beinin, Joel, 1948-; Vairel, Frederic, 1977-
• Place / Publishing House: Stanford, California : : Stanford University Press,, [2013]; 2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Second edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (349 pages).

Table of Contents

Introduction : the Middle East and North Africa beyond classical social movement theory / Joel Beinin and Frederic Vairel -- Protesting in authoritarian situations : Egypt and Morocco in comparative perspective / Frederic Vairel -- Egyptian leftist intellectuals' activism from the margins : overcoming the mobilization/demobilization dichotomy / Marie Duboc -- Leaving Islamic activism behind : ambiguous disengagement in Saudi Arabia / Pascal Menoret -- Hizbullah's women : internal transformation in a social movement and militia / Anne Marie Baylouny -- Three decades of human rights activism in the Middle East and North Africa : an ambiguous balance sheet / Joe Stork -- Unemployed Moroccan university graduates and strategies for 'apolitical' mobilization / Montserrat Emperador Badimon -- Presence in silence : feminist and democratic implications of the Saturday vigils in Turkey / Zeynep Gulru Goker -- Mobilizations for Western Thrace and Cyprus in contemporary Turkey : From the far right to the lexicon of human rights / Jeanne Hersant -- Becoming revolutionary in Tunisia, 2007-2011 / Amin Allal -- A workers' social movement on the margin of the global neoliberal order, Egypt 2004-2012 / Joel Beinin and Marie Duboc -- Dynamics of the Yemeni revolution : contextualizing mobilizations / Laurent Bonnefoy and Marine Poirier -- "Oh Buthaina, oh Shaban--the Hawrani is not hungry, we want freedom!" : revolutionary framing and mobilization at the onset of the Syrian uprising / Reinoud Leenders.