Highlights•Powerful protest symbols condense multiple meanings and feelings of a
group.•Symbols create solidarity among the group and motivate protest action.•Social …

This chapter presents a timely and critical account of the Arab uprisings from an international
relations (IR) perspective. It does so via a revisionist interpretation that stresses the …

We analyze the effects of the 2011 Egyptian protests on the relative labor market conditions
of women using panel data from the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS). Using …

In Tehran, murals depicting men who died in the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the Iran–
Iraq war of 1980–1988 are ubiquitous. The murals represent an exercise in state …

Eight years after the 'Arab Spring', literature is still marked by techno-deterministic
interpretations. This article contributes to examining the role of agenda-building processes …

A penetrating analysis of weaponized information–one of the most pressing dangers to open
societies Now more than ever, communities across the world are integrated into a complex …

With the tremendous visibility of popular mobilization in the last decade, scholars have
increasingly directed their attention to the streets to examine the dynamics of power and …

This article assesses the prevalence and implications of the research foci methodological
nationalism, methodological globalism, and transnationalism in publications regarding the …

In popular, legal, and academic discourses, the term" human rights" is now almost always
discussed in relation to its opposite: human rights abuses. Syllabi, textbooks, and articles …

ABSTRACT I argue that theories of global modernity/world society offer a promising inter-
disciplinary approach for theorizing the Middle East. They provide a conceptual umbrella for …