A glimpse into how Arab publics, activists, politicians, and governments mobilized the wildly divergent meanings of revolution refreshes our understanding…
Reviving revolution
revolution
The civic and the popular: Reflections on the Iraqi uprising
The recent uprising began in early October 2019 and grew into a spontaneous and leaderless protest movement that quickly spread…
I know I am, but what are you?
For Bouteldja, though boundaries of identity are real and significant, they are also porous, and they must be made ever…
Love in dark times
Bouteldja’s “we” is resolutely impure, as is the “you” she addresses. And because it is impure, it is political. It…
Islamism beyond the Muslim Brotherhood
A few weeks after the ouster of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi in 2013, the New York Times ran this headline:…
Egypt at the crossroads
Mohamed Morsi was declared President of Egypt little more than two weeks ago. Challenger and former President Hosni Mubarak’s last…
Egyptian elections
The protests in the Middle East and North Africa, and the ensuing political changes, were intended to transcend the old…
“The Rise of the Islamists”
The award-winning documentary radio program, America Abroad, has recently released a new documentary entitled, "The Rise of the Islamists."
Frequencies 61/100 – 70/100
Yesterday marked the seventieth entry in Frequencies, a co-production of The Immanent Frame and Killing the Buddha.
CFP: From Tahrir to Wisconsin
The political theory graduate students of the Cornell Department of Government will host an interdisciplinary graduate student conference, "From Tahrir…