Mujib Alam, Professor, MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.Sujata Ashwarya, Professor, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

• AcknowledgementsAbout the ContributorsIntroductionMujib Alam and Sujata Ashwarya1. After Summer May Come the Fall: The Enduring Dilemma of Popular Sovereignty in the Middle EastKingshuk Chatterjee2 Democratic Upsurge in the Arab World and India Priyamvada A. Sawant3 Sectarianism and Instability in Post-Arab Spring West AsiaMohmad Saleem Sheikh4 The Syrian Crisis and Turkey’s Involvement Özden Zeynep Oktav5 The Syrian Crisis and its Implications for IndiaSukalpa Chakrabarti6 Civil War in Syria: Understanding the Chinese ResponseAbu Zafar7 Saudi Arabia After the Arab Spring: The Oil Era and ReformsVrushal T. Ghoble8 Saudi State and the Crisis of LegitimacyUmar Farooq9 Public Spaces and the Arab Uprisings: Sites of Contention Priya Singh10 Spring in Arabic Literature amid the Turmoil in the RegionMd. Aftab Ahmad11 Hezbollah and Regional Confrontation: The Arab Spring ContextSujata Ashwarya and Mohmad Saleem Sheikh12 Arab Spring and the French Revolution: The Longue Durée of TransformationAdil Rasheed Select Further ReadingsIndex

Mujib Alam, Professor, MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.Sujata Ashwarya, Professor, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

• AcknowledgementsAbout the ContributorsIntroductionMujib Alam and Sujata Ashwarya1. After Summer May Come the Fall: The Enduring Dilemma of Popular Sovereignty in the Middle EastKingshuk Chatterjee2 Democratic Upsurge in the Arab World and India Priyamvada A. Sawant3 Sectarianism and Instability in Post-Arab Spring West AsiaMohmad Saleem Sheikh4 The Syrian Crisis and Turkey’s Involvement Özden Zeynep Oktav5 The Syrian Crisis and its Implications for IndiaSukalpa Chakrabarti6 Civil War in Syria: Understanding the Chinese ResponseAbu Zafar7 Saudi Arabia After the Arab Spring: The Oil Era and ReformsVrushal T. Ghoble8 Saudi State and the Crisis of LegitimacyUmar Farooq9 Public Spaces and the Arab Uprisings: Sites of Contention Priya Singh10 Spring in Arabic Literature amid the Turmoil in the RegionMd. Aftab Ahmad11 Hezbollah and Regional Confrontation: The Arab Spring ContextSujata Ashwarya and Mohmad Saleem Sheikh12 Arab Spring and the French Revolution: The Longue Durée of TransformationAdil Rasheed Select Further ReadingsIndex

Mujib Alam, Professor, MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.Sujata Ashwarya, Professor, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

• AcknowledgementsAbout the ContributorsIntroductionMujib Alam and Sujata Ashwarya1. After Summer May Come the Fall: The Enduring Dilemma of Popular Sovereignty in the Middle EastKingshuk Chatterjee2 Democratic Upsurge in the Arab World and India Priyamvada A. Sawant3 Sectarianism and Instability in Post-Arab Spring West AsiaMohmad Saleem Sheikh4 The Syrian Crisis and Turkey’s Involvement Özden Zeynep Oktav5 The Syrian Crisis and its Implications for IndiaSukalpa Chakrabarti6 Civil War in Syria: Understanding the Chinese ResponseAbu Zafar7 Saudi Arabia After the Arab Spring: The Oil Era and ReformsVrushal T. Ghoble8 Saudi State and the Crisis of LegitimacyUmar Farooq9 Public Spaces and the Arab Uprisings: Sites of Contention Priya Singh10 Spring in Arabic Literature amid the Turmoil in the RegionMd. Aftab Ahmad11 Hezbollah and Regional Confrontation: The Arab Spring ContextSujata Ashwarya and Mohmad Saleem Sheikh12 Arab Spring and the French Revolution: The Longue Durée of TransformationAdil Rasheed Select Further ReadingsIndex