Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the Middle East and North Africa beyond classical social movement theory / Joel Beinin and Frβedβeric Vairel
  • Protesting in authoritarian situations : Egypt and Morocco in comparative perspective / Frβedβeric Vairel
  • Egyptian leftist intellectuals' activism from the margins : overcoming the mobilization/demobilization dichotomy / Marie Duboc
  • Leaving Islamic activism behind : ambiguous disengagement in Saudi Arabia / Pascal Menoret
  • Hizbullah's women : internal transformation in a social movement and militia / Anne Marie Baylouny
  • Three decades of human rights activism in the Middle East and North Africa : an ambiguous balance sheet / Joe Stork
  • Unemployed Moroccan university graduates and strategies for 'apolitical' mobilization / Montserrat Emperador Badimon
  • Presence in silence : feminist and democratic implications of the Saturday vigils in Turkey / Zeynep Gθulru Gθoker
  • Mobilizations for Western Thrace and Cyprus in contemporary Turkey : From the far right to the lexicon of human rights / Jeanne Hersant
  • Becoming revolutionary in Tunisia, 2007-2011 / Amin Allal
  • A workers' social movement on the margin of the global neoliberal order, Egypt 2004-2012 / Joel Beinin and Marie Duboc
  • Dynamics of the Yemeni revolution : contextualizing mobilizations / Laurent Bonnefoy and Marine Poirier
  • "Oh Buthaina, oh Shaban
  • the Hawrani is not hungry, we want freedom!" : revolutionary framing and mobilization at the onset of the Syrian uprising / Reinoud Leenders.