Tag: Arab Spring

February 2, 2016

Tunisia’s Periphery Rises Up Again

Tunisia, still facing massive unemployment, is wracked by another flare up of protests.

Middle East Studies
December 1, 2015

Decolonizing Culture

What a leftist Moroccan journal from the 60s can teach us about today’s cultural crises.

Culture & Media Studies, Literary Theory, Middle East Studies
April 21, 2015

Revolutionary Fallout

How the Young Turks went from Carnegie Hall to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

History, Middle East Studies
September 10, 2014

A Usable Past

How regimes shore up power through national narratives. Of all the factors that have been considered and evaluated as primers for the pervasive nature of authoritarianism in the Middle East, perhaps none are quite so crucial, nor quite so overlooked, as that of the national …

Middle East Studies
February 20, 2014

The Arab Spring That Wasn’t: Bahrain

As Bahrain experienced paroxysms of revolt in the midst of the Arab Spring, Toby Matthiesen was on the ground in the small island kingdom, watching the events of 2011 unfold. Inspired by the domino-chain of the Arab Spring, in 2011 Bahrainis rallied for political reform. …

Current Affairs, Middle East Studies, Politics, Religious Studies
January 21, 2014

The Day of Anger

This Saturday, January 25th marks the three-year anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 uprising. Touted as the “Day of Anger,” these protests heralded the end of a regime and ushered in a new era of tumult for the Egyptian people, whose political future still remains unclear today. …

Current Affairs, Middle East Studies, Politics