Lina Khatib is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center and was a co-founder of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Ellen Lust is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and founding director of the Program on Governance and Local Development in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.

The volume is a welcome contribution to the literature on contentious politics and mobilization and should be equally valuable for university courses and scholars working on political sociology. -- Jacob Hoigilt American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences This volume will have a longer shelf life than many volumes about the uprisings because of its focus on providing a rich empirical context... It will be of interest to a broad readership and will be terrific in undergrad courses-I intend to use it myself... I would strongly recommend it to anyone interested in a deeper understanding of the uprisings, and particularly their genesis. -- Jillian Schwedler Middle East Journal

• ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction. Reconsidering Activism in the Arab World: Arab Uprisings and BeyondChapter 1. Architecture of Resistance in TunisiaChapter 2. Egypt: A Decade of RupturesChapter 3. Activism and Civil War in LibyaChapter 4. Explaining Political Activism in YemenChapter 5. Activism in Syria: Between Nonviolence and Armed ResistanceChapter 6. Activism in Bahrain: Between Sectarian and Issue PoliticsChapter 7. Morocco's Makhzen and the Haphazard ActivistsChapter 8. Jordan: Evolving Activism in a Divided SocietyChapter 9. Political Activism in Kuwait: Reform in Fits and StartsChapter 10. No Spring in Riyadh: Saudi Arabia's Seemingly Impossible RevolutionPostscript. From Activism to DemocracyList of Contributors Index

Lina Khatib is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center and was a co-founder of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Ellen Lust is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and founding director of the Program on Governance and Local Development in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.

The volume is a welcome contribution to the literature on contentious politics and mobilization and should be equally valuable for university courses and scholars working on political sociology. -- Jacob Hoigilt American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences This volume will have a longer shelf life than many volumes about the uprisings because of its focus on providing a rich empirical context... It will be of interest to a broad readership and will be terrific in undergrad courses-I intend to use it myself... I would strongly recommend it to anyone interested in a deeper understanding of the uprisings, and particularly their genesis. -- Jillian Schwedler Middle East Journal

• ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction. Reconsidering Activism in the Arab World: Arab Uprisings and BeyondChapter 1. Architecture of Resistance in TunisiaChapter 2. Egypt: A Decade of RupturesChapter 3. Activism and Civil War in LibyaChapter 4. Explaining Political Activism in YemenChapter 5. Activism in Syria: Between Nonviolence and Armed ResistanceChapter 6. Activism in Bahrain: Between Sectarian and Issue PoliticsChapter 7. Morocco's Makhzen and the Haphazard ActivistsChapter 8. Jordan: Evolving Activism in a Divided SocietyChapter 9. Political Activism in Kuwait: Reform in Fits and StartsChapter 10. No Spring in Riyadh: Saudi Arabia's Seemingly Impossible RevolutionPostscript. From Activism to DemocracyList of Contributors Index

Lina Khatib is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center and was a co-founder of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Ellen Lust is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and founding director of the Program on Governance and Local Development in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.

The volume is a welcome contribution to the literature on contentious politics and mobilization and should be equally valuable for university courses and scholars working on political sociology. -- Jacob Hoigilt American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences This volume will have a longer shelf life than many volumes about the uprisings because of its focus on providing a rich empirical context... It will be of interest to a broad readership and will be terrific in undergrad courses-I intend to use it myself... I would strongly recommend it to anyone interested in a deeper understanding of the uprisings, and particularly their genesis. -- Jillian Schwedler Middle East Journal

• ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction. Reconsidering Activism in the Arab World: Arab Uprisings and BeyondChapter 1. Architecture of Resistance in TunisiaChapter 2. Egypt: A Decade of RupturesChapter 3. Activism and Civil War in LibyaChapter 4. Explaining Political Activism in YemenChapter 5. Activism in Syria: Between Nonviolence and Armed ResistanceChapter 6. Activism in Bahrain: Between Sectarian and Issue PoliticsChapter 7. Morocco's Makhzen and the Haphazard ActivistsChapter 8. Jordan: Evolving Activism in a Divided SocietyChapter 9. Political Activism in Kuwait: Reform in Fits and StartsChapter 10. No Spring in Riyadh: Saudi Arabia's Seemingly Impossible RevolutionPostscript. From Activism to DemocracyList of Contributors Index