The London-based publisher Zed Books recently released Hamid Dabashi's The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (distributed in the U.S. by Macmillan).
The end of postcolonialism
Arab Spring
Coptic Christians and Egypt’s future
Yasmine Saleh recently reported on the dilemma many Coptic Christians face in the upcoming Egyptian presidential election.
Sunni-Shia discord on the rise?
The Economist reported recently on the state of Sunni-Shia relations only a few years after a seemingly pivotal moment.
Tunisian Jews and the Arab Spring
In a recent article, Lin Noueihed and Terek Amara discuss the racism and fear of harassment Tunisian Jews have experienced…
The season of revolution
The online journal Interface: A Forum for and about Social Movements dedicates much of its most recent issue to the "Arab Spring."
Misogyny and the Muslim woman
At The Atlantic, Max Fisher considers the sources of misogyny in the Middle East in light of recent conversations surrounding…
Nahda’s return to history
The Tunisian uprisings of December 2010 are often depicted in negative terms, as lacking leadership, ideology, and political organization. Nahda…
Paradoxes of “religious freedom” in Egypt
The place of religion in the political order is arguably the most contentious issue in post-Mubarak Egypt. With Islamist-oriented parties…
On the secularist-Islamist divide
At Al Jazeera English, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd gives an abridged history of the past half-century of Tunisian politics, and relays the Enahddan notion that the…
The year of the Islamist
David Rohde, in Reuters’ Analysis and Opinion blog, designates 2012 as the year of the Islamist and discusses the likelihood…