The Arab Spring and the Crisis of Interpretation

The Arab Spring and the Crisis of Interpretation

Review Article

The Arab Spring and the Crisis of Interpretation

Author(s): Ziauddin Sardar & Robin Wright & Marc Lynch & Susan B. Glasser & Blake Hounshell & Jean-Pierre Filiu & Stephen Kinzer & Nikolaosvan Dam & Galal Amin & Bruce Feiler & Council on Foreign Relations & Robin Yassin-Kassab

Reviewed by: Abdelwahab El-Affendi, University of Westminster, London, UK

 

Review

ROCK THE CASBAH: RAGE AND REBELLION ACROSS THE ISLAMIC WORLD. By Robin Wright. London: Simon & Schuster, 2011, Pp. 307.

REVOLUTION IN THE ARAB WORLD. By Marc Lynch, Susan B. Glasser and Blake Hounshell, (Eds.). Washington, DC: The Slate Group, 2011, (e-book).

THE ARAB REVOLUTION: TEN LESSONS FROM THE DEMOCRATIC UPRISING. By Jean-Pierre Filiu. London: C.Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2011, Pp. 256.

RESET MIDDLE EAST: OLD FRIENDS AND NEW ALLIANCES: SAUDI ARABIA, ISRAEL, TURKEY, IRAN. By Stephen Kinzer. London: I.B. Tauris,2011, Pp. 274.

THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN SYRIA: SECTARIANISM, REGIONALISM, AND TRIBALISM IN POLITICS, 1961–1978. By Nikolaosvan Dam. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011 (fourth edition), Pp. 255.

EGYPT IN THE ERA OF HOSNI MUBARAK: 1981-2011. By Galal Amin. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2011.

GENERATION FREEDOM: THE MIDDLE EAST UPRISINGS AND THE REMAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD: THE MIDDLE EAST UPRISINGS AND THE FUTURE OF FAITH. By Bruce Feiler. New York: Harper Perennial, 2011, Pp. 151.

THE NEW ARAB REVOLT: WHAT HAPPENED, WHAT IT MEANS, AND WHAT COMES NEXT. By Council on Foreign Relations. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, (e-book).

CRITICAL MUSLIM 01: THE ARABS ARE ALIVE. By Ziauddin Sardar and Robin Yassin-Kassab (Eds.). London: C. Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2012, Pp. 264.


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