Arab Uprisings- Reading List

In honour of the tenth anniversary of the Arab Uprisings, the MECACS Faculty has put together a list of publications and filmography to keep the conversation going. We hope they will spark interesting debates.

Books

‘After the Arab Uprisings: between democratization, counter-revolution and state failure’ by Raymond Hinnebusch

‘Authoritarian Apprehensions: ideology, judgement and mourning in Syria’ by Lisa Weeden

‘Contentious Politics in the Middle East, Popular Resistance and Marginalized Activism beyond the Arab Uprisings’ edited by Fawaz Gerges 

‘From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy’ by Jean-Pierre Filiu 

‘Media and the Arab Uprisings’ by Hatim El-Hibri, Rayya El Zein, and Marwan Kraidy

‘Revolution in Rojava, Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan’ by Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboga

‘Tahrir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution’ edited by Rebekkah Maggor and Mohamed Albakry 

‘The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria’ by Aliya Malek

‘The Origins of the Syrian Conflict, Climate Change and Human Security’ by Marwa Daoudy

‘The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria’ by Salwa Ismail

‘The Syrian Jihad’ by Charles Lister

‘The Syrian Uprising’ by Raymond Hinnebusch

‘Uprisings, Resistance, and Popular Mobilization in the Middle East and North Africa’  by John Chalcraft

‘Uprisings, Resistance, and Popular Mobilization’ by Asef Bayat

‘Violent Non-State Actors and the Syrian Civil War: ISIS and the YPG Cases’ edited by Özden Zeynep Oktav

‘Yemen Endures’ by Ginny Hill

‘Twitter and Tear Gas’ by Zeynep Tufeicki

Journals

Abu-Lughod, Lila, and Rabab El-Mahdi. “Beyond the ‘Woman Question’ in the Egyptian Revolution.” Feminist Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, 2011.

Al Ali, Nadje. “Gendering the Arab Spring”. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, vol. 5, no.1, 2012.

Al Rasheed, Madawi. “Sectarianism as Counter‐Revolution: Saudi Responses to the Arab Spring.” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, vol. 11, no. 3, 2011.

Anderson, Lisa. “Demystifying the Arab Spring.” Foreign Affairs, 2011.

Bennani-Chraïbi, Mounia, et al. “Towards a Sociology of Revolutionary Situations: Reflections on the Arab Uprisings.” Revue Française De Science Politique (English Edition), vol. 62, no. 5-6, 2012.

Brynen, Rex, Pete Moore, Bassel Salloukh, Marie-Joelle Zahar. “Beyond the Arab Spring: authoritarianism and democratization in the Arab world.” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2012.

Brownlee, Tarek Masoud, and Andrew Reynolds. “Why the Modest Harvest.” Journal of Democracy, vol.24, no. 4, 2014.

Dalacoura, Katerina. “Islamism, Democracy and Democratization and the 2011 Arab Uprisings.”  Mediterranean Politics, vol. 20, no. 3, 2015.

Halabi, Nour. “The Ancient Walls of Damascus and the Siege of Mouaddamiyya: A Historical and Spatial Analysis of Bounded Place and Cultural Identity.” Space and Culture, vol. 20, no.4, 2017.

Halabi, Nour. “Visualizing Inequality: The Spatial Politics of Revolution Depicted in Syrian Television Drama.” Middle East Critique, vol. 28, no. 2, 2019.

Hoffman, Micheal and Jamal, Amaney. “Religion in the Arab Spring: between two Competing Narratives.” The Journal of Politics, vol. 76, no. 3, 2014.

Khamis, Sahar. “The Arab ‘Feminist’ Spring?” Feminist Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, 2011.

Lynch, Marc. “The Arab Uprising: the unfinished revolutions of the new Middle East.” Public Affairs, 2012.

Manea, Elham. “The Arab Popular Uprisings from a Gender Perspective.” Zeitschrift Für Politik, vol. 61, no. 1, 2014.

Mueller, Lisa. “Women and the Egyptian Revolution: Engagement and Activism during the 2011 Arab Uprisings”. The Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 57, no. 1, 2018.

Pace, Michelle & Cavatorta, Francesco. ”The Arab Uprisings in Theoretical Perspective – An Introduction” Mediterranean Politics, vol. 17, no. 2, 2012.

Volpi  Frédéric & Stein, Ewan. “Islamism and the state after the Arab uprisings: Between people power and state power.” Democratization,  vol 22, no. 2, 2015.

Volpi, Frédéric and James M. Jasper. “Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings: Mapping Interactions between Regimes and Protesters.” Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Filmography 

For Sama- Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts

The Cave- Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjaer

Cairo Drive – Sherief Elkatsha

We Are The Giant –  Greg Barker

Queens of Syria – Yasmin Fedda

1/2 Revolution – Omar Shargawi, Karim El Hakim