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Arab Revolution : Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising book

Arab Revolution : Ten Lessons from the Democratic UprisingArab Revolution : Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising book

Arab Revolution : Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising


  • Author: Professor Jean-Pierre Filiu
  • Date: 23 Nov 2011
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Language: English
  • Book Format: Hardback::195 pages
  • ISBN10: 0199898294
  • ISBN13: 9780199898299
  • Publication City/Country: Oxford, England, United States
  • Dimension: 142x 218x 23mm::295g


Get this from a library! The Arab revolution:ten lessons from the democratic uprising. [Jean-Pierre Filiu] - The democratic uprising throughout the Arab world is proving how wrong were the hitherto accepted political alternatives, either dictatorship or Islamism. Yet more lessons Drawing on evidence from the 2011 Egyptian uprising, this article demonstrates how the use of two social media platforms Facebook and Twitter contributed to a discrete mobilizational outcome: the staging of a successful first protest in a revolutionary cascade, referred to here as first-mover mobilization. Arabs are no Exception 2. Muslims are Not Only Muslims 3. The Freedom Agenda 4. Angry Young (wo)men 5. Social Networks 6. A Leaderless Movement 7. Looking back, the uprising started as student demonstrations but the military s random killings angered citizens into joining the student demonstrators, escalating it into a massive uprising. According to later reports, nearly 200 persons were killed, including 26 soldiers and policemen; of the more than 150 civilians killed, only 17 died on the final day of assault. Have the Arab uprisings influenced the desire for democracy in the Middle East and North Africa? First Published September 10, 2019 Research Article the Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Lessons from the Arab Spring. The democratic uprising throughout the Arab world is proving how Lessons are already being learnt from this grassroots process, even while Download Citation on ResearchGate | On Jan 1, 2011, James Denselow and others published The Arab revolution: ten lessons from the democratic uprising The Arab Spring and the "Nahda" Reform Movement The Second Arab Renaissance. Despite the brutal suppression of the revolution of 1919, His most recent publication is La R