Political Identities and Popular Uprisings in the Middle East

Note on Transliteration / Acknowledgements / 1. Introduction, Shabnam J. Holliday and Philip Leech / 2. Divided we stand? The Heterogeneous Political Identities of Iran's 2009-2010 Uprisings, Shabnam J. Holliday and Paola Rivetti / 3. The Spring in Sulaimani: Kurdish Protest and Political Identities, Nicole F. Watts / 4. Underlying Fragility: the absence of hegemony and popular demonstrations in the West Bank 2011-12, Philip Leech / 5. Israeli Grassroots Activism: Recent Waves of Protests, and Heterogeneous Political Identities, Giulia Daniele / 6. From Ba'thist Nationalism to New Syrian Identities. How the Emerging Syrian Civil Society Tries to Define Itself Before, During and After the Popular Uprising, Lorenzo Trombetta / 7. Political identities and the Uprising in Yemen, Fernando Carvajal / 8. In Want of the People. Tahrir as a Revolutionary Reconstitution of the Egyptian National-Popular Subject, Brecht De Smet / 9. The Tunisian Uprising, Ennahdha, and the Revival of an Arab-Islamic Identity, Rory McCarthy / 10. Conclusion, Shabnam J. Holliday and Philip Leech / List of Contributors / Bibliography / Index

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Citizenship;Democracy;Identity;Political Violence;Protest;Social Movements