...Merieme Yafout There is near unanimity among observers that those who have benefited most from the Arab Spring are the Islamists, who have been brought to power at the ballot box in a number of the countries that have witnessed revolutions or popular movements. How has the Islamists' transition...

... participant in the “second wave” of the Arab Spring, which has refused the lure of procedural democracy in favor of deeper structural change. The system has broken down [nizam klahu al-sus] The system has broken down [nizam klahu al-sus] This is not a state [hedhi mahish dawla] This is an animal farm...

... Women's Movements.” IDS Bulletin 35 ( 2004 ): 34 – 42 . Joya Angela . “Syria and the Arab Spring: The Evolution of the Conflict and the Role of Domestic and External Factors.” Ortadoğu Etütleri ( Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies ) 4 ( 2012 ): 27 – 55 . Karim Lamia...

... , 101 – 19 . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2011 . ———. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 . Al-Ali Nadje . “Gendering the Arab Spring.” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 5 ( 2012 ): 26 – 31...

... and to possibilities for a more inclusive politics. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Feminisms Islam Women's Rights Embodiment Arab Spring Many of these articles were first presented at workshops organized through Columbia University's Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD). Both...

... to the BA in history and journalism from the George Wash- Arab Spring.” ington University in 2001. Her doctoral dissertation was titled “Kuwait City: Urbanisation, the Built Envi- Liat Kozma is a lecturer at the Department of Islamic ronment, and the Urban Experience...

..., exclusions, and occlusions that mark the imagina- tive geographies of both “feminism” and “Islam” and suggest points of transregional convergence. These essays turn to specific situations, including the Arab Spring in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, strong-­state politics in Jordan and Syria, and shifting...

... of the principal articles in the volume were writ- nized, because of its exclusive focus on Islamic activ- Studies of ten prior to the outbreak of the Arab Spring, when ism, the scope of Islamic Activism ignored the much authoritarianisms across...

... of the principal articles in the volume were writ- nized, because of its exclusive focus on Islamic activ- Studies of ten prior to the outbreak of the Arab Spring, when ism, the scope of Islamic Activism ignored the much authoritarianisms across...

... of the principal articles in the volume were writ- nized, because of its exclusive focus on Islamic activ- Studies of ten prior to the outbreak of the Arab Spring, when ism, the scope of Islamic Activism ignored the much authoritarianisms across...

... of the principal articles in the volume were writ- nized, because of its exclusive focus on Islamic activ- Studies of ten prior to the outbreak of the Arab Spring, when ism, the scope of Islamic Activism ignored the much authoritarianisms across...

... of the principal articles in the volume were writ- nized, because of its exclusive focus on Islamic activ- Studies of ten prior to the outbreak of the Arab Spring, when ism, the scope of Islamic Activism ignored the much authoritarianisms across...

... of the principal articles in the volume were writ- nized, because of its exclusive focus on Islamic activ- Studies of ten prior to the outbreak of the Arab Spring, when ism, the scope of Islamic Activism ignored the much authoritarianisms across...

... of the principal articles in the volume were writ- nized, because of its exclusive focus on Islamic activ- Studies of ten prior to the outbreak of the Arab Spring, when ism, the scope of Islamic Activism ignored the much authoritarianisms across...

... of the principal articles in the volume were writ- nized, because of its exclusive focus on Islamic activ- Studies of ten prior to the outbreak of the Arab Spring, when ism, the scope of Islamic Activism ignored the much authoritarianisms across...

... , 2011 . www.mei.edu/content/women-shari%E2%80%98-and-personal-status-law-reform-egypt-after-revolution . Hamdy Sherine F. “Strength and Vulnerability after Egypt's Arab Spring Uprisings.” American Ethnologist 39 , no. 1 ( 2012 ): 43 – 48 . Harnisch Chris Mecham Quinn...

..., and Reynolds, Arab Spring ; Owen, State, Power and Politics . 6. Keck and Sikkink, Activists beyond Borders . 7. Tarrow, Power in Movement . 8. Gramsci, Letters from Prison , 169 . 9. Ayubi, Over-stating the Arab State ; Roccu, “Gramsci in Cairo.” 10...

... Union the Arab Spring’s radicalism from the periph- or China.” By contrast, the context in which ery/South to the center/North was invoked Lotus was produced...

... was T conceived in the wake of powerful popular movements that emerged suddenly—the Arab Spring, Occupy, campaigns in India denouncing corruption and the resulting violence against women—and in each of these campaigns, what was consistently remarked upon...

...- tionality. “Dissent: The Politics and Poetics of Women’s Resistance” predates the Arab Spring, South Asia, Africa and Arab revolution, or Occupy movements. In fact, these essays provide much insight into this Comparative the Middle East rapidly...