Tijen Tunali is an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Columbia University Global Centers | Amman. She is the editor of Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape (2021) and co-editor of Contemporary Art Across Political Divides: Difficult Conversations (2023). Josepha Wessels is an associate professor in Media and Communication Studies at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University, Sweden. She is the author of Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution (2019, I.B.Tauris).

Looking at the complex interaction of aesthetics and politics, this volume investigates the emancipatory power of radical art. With a focus on the two waves of uprisings in the Swana region in the years 2010s, the authors show how artistic performances of different types and following genres are developed and spread in the streets, on the walls or in the internet, catalyzing resistance to authoritarianism, but also to neoliberal capitalism, militarism and colonialism. An important book to read for social movement scholars.

• List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration IntroductionChapter 1: Al Sar'a Alna? (The Street is Ours?), Erin CoryChapter 2: Remapping Political Music in Morocco, Farouk El Maarouf and Moulay Driss El Maarouf Chapter 3: Creative Space and Uprising In Algeria, Dominique Lounés LalegChapter 4: Monumental Re-Bourguibization, Joachim Ben YakoubChapter 5: After Images of the 2011 Egyptian Uprisings, Bjørn ØrskovChapter 6: Walls and Revolution in Sudan, Josepha Wessels and Ahmad al-Naji[Chapter 7: Revolutionary Women in Iran, Rassa GhaffariChapter 8: War on Walls, Mansour Ali M. Al-MaswariChapter 9: Literary Writing in Syria, Brigitte HerremansIndex

Tijen Tunali is an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Columbia University Global Centers | Amman. She is the editor of Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape (2021) and co-editor of Contemporary Art Across Political Divides: Difficult Conversations (2023). Josepha Wessels is an associate professor in Media and Communication Studies at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University, Sweden. She is the author of Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution (2019, I.B.Tauris).

Looking at the complex interaction of aesthetics and politics, this volume investigates the emancipatory power of radical art. With a focus on the two waves of uprisings in the Swana region in the years 2010s, the authors show how artistic performances of different types and following genres are developed and spread in the streets, on the walls or in the internet, catalyzing resistance to authoritarianism, but also to neoliberal capitalism, militarism and colonialism. An important book to read for social movement scholars.

• List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration IntroductionChapter 1: Al Sar'a Alna? (The Street is Ours?), Erin CoryChapter 2: Remapping Political Music in Morocco, Farouk El Maarouf and Moulay Driss El Maarouf Chapter 3: Creative Space and Uprising In Algeria, Dominique Lounés LalegChapter 4: Monumental Re-Bourguibization, Joachim Ben YakoubChapter 5: After Images of the 2011 Egyptian Uprisings, Bjørn ØrskovChapter 6: Walls and Revolution in Sudan, Josepha Wessels and Ahmad al-Naji[Chapter 7: Revolutionary Women in Iran, Rassa GhaffariChapter 8: War on Walls, Mansour Ali M. Al-MaswariChapter 9: Literary Writing in Syria, Brigitte HerremansIndex

Tijen Tunali is an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Columbia University Global Centers | Amman. She is the editor of Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape (2021) and co-editor of Contemporary Art Across Political Divides: Difficult Conversations (2023). Josepha Wessels is an associate professor in Media and Communication Studies at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University, Sweden. She is the author of Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution (2019, I.B.Tauris).

Looking at the complex interaction of aesthetics and politics, this volume investigates the emancipatory power of radical art. With a focus on the two waves of uprisings in the Swana region in the years 2010s, the authors show how artistic performances of different types and following genres are developed and spread in the streets, on the walls or in the internet, catalyzing resistance to authoritarianism, but also to neoliberal capitalism, militarism and colonialism. An important book to read for social movement scholars.

• List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration IntroductionChapter 1: Al Sar'a Alna? (The Street is Ours?), Erin CoryChapter 2: Remapping Political Music in Morocco, Farouk El Maarouf and Moulay Driss El Maarouf Chapter 3: Creative Space and Uprising In Algeria, Dominique Lounés LalegChapter 4: Monumental Re-Bourguibization, Joachim Ben YakoubChapter 5: After Images of the 2011 Egyptian Uprisings, Bjørn ØrskovChapter 6: Walls and Revolution in Sudan, Josepha Wessels and Ahmad al-Naji[Chapter 7: Revolutionary Women in Iran, Rassa GhaffariChapter 8: War on Walls, Mansour Ali M. Al-MaswariChapter 9: Literary Writing in Syria, Brigitte HerremansIndex