Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East.
The Arab Spring that resides in the popular imagination is one in which a wave of mass …

Over the last decade," youth" has become increasingly central to policy, development, media
and public debates and conflicts across the world–whether as an ideological symbol, social …

The meme of the Arab Spring is characterized by bottom-up change, or the lack thereof, and
its effects are still unfurling today. The Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring seeks to …

The idea of prefiguration is widely assumed to derive from anarchist discourse; it involves
experimenting with currently available means in such a way that they come to mirror or …

The complexity of influenza A virus (IAV) infections in avian hosts leads to equally complex
scenarios for the vaccination of poultry. Vaccination against avian influenza strains can be …

This book advances an Islamic political philosophy based on the concept of Ihsan, which
means to do beautiful things. The author moves beyond the dominant model of Islamic …

This chapter maps out the space of translation within the political economy of contemporary
protest movements, using the Egyptian revolution as a case in point and extending the …

This article takes stock of my attempt to scrutinize the onset of the Syrian uprising with the
help of some key analytical concepts derived from social movement theory, including …

Numerous scholars have investigated religiously motivated violence, particularly in the wake
of September 11, including discussions on the role of modernity in triggering religious …

In Women of the Midan, Sherine Hafez demonstrates how women were a central part of
revolutionary process of the Arab Spring. Women not only protested in the streets of Cairo …