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This book, written by scholars and civic activists, examines the role of nonviolent civil resistance in challenging tyranny and promoting democratic-self rule in the greater Middle East - using case studies and analyses of how religion, youth, women, technology, and external actors have influenced the progress and outcomes of civil resistance campaigns in the region.

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This book examines the role of nonviolent civil resistance in challenging tyranny and promoting democratic-self rule in the greater Middle East using case studies and analyses of how religion, youth, women, technology and external actors have influenced the outcome of civil resistance in the region.

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PART I OVERVIEW Theory and Dynamics of Nonviolent Action; Hardy Merriman Questions and Controversies about Nonviolent Struggle in the Middle East; Ralph E. Crow and Philip Grant No Silence, No Violence: A Post-Islamist Trajectory; Asef Bayat Humor and Resistance in the Arab World and Greater Middle East; Khalid Kishtainy Islamist and Nonviolent Action; Shadi Hamid Free at Last! Free at Last! Allahu Akbar, We Are Free at Last! Parallels between Modern Arab and Islamic Activism and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement; Rami G. Khouri External Actors and Nonviolent Struggles in the Middle East; Stephen Zunes and Saad Eddin Ibrahim PART II CASE STUDIES: Challenging Foreign Occupation and Domination The Muslim Pashtun Movement of the North-West Frontier of India, 1930-1934; Mohammad Raqib Noncooperation in the Golan Heights: A Case of Nonviolent Resistance; R. Scott Kennedy Palestinian Popular Resistance against Israeli Military Occupation; Mary E. King The Nonviolent Struggle for Self-Determination in the Western Sahara; Salka Barca and Stephen Zunes Lebanon´s Independence Intifada: How Unarmed Insurrection Expelled Syrian Forces; Rudy Jaafar and Maria J. Stephan PART II CASE STUDIES: Challenging Domestic Tyranny and Promoting Democratic Reform Iran´s Islamic Revolution and Nonviolent Struggle; Mohsen Sazegara and Maria Stephan Kefaya: The Egyptian Movement for Change; Sherif Mansour Kuwaiti 2005 ´Orange Movement´; Faisal Alfahad and Hamad Albloshi PART II CASE STUDIES: Movements for Social and Political Rights Hizbullah: Delimiting the Boundaries of Nonviolent Resistance?; Rola el-Husseini Realistic Nonviolence: Arba Imahot, The Four Mothers Movement in Israel; Tamar Hermann Popular Resistance against Corruption in Turkey and Egypt; Shaazka Beyerle and Arwa Hassan The Iranian Women´s Movement: Repression versus Nonviolent Resolve; Fariba Davoudi Mohajer and Roya Tolouee, Shaazkaa Beyerle Conclusion: Civil Resistance-Wave of the Future in the Middle East?

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MARIA J. STEPHAN is Senior Director, Policy and Research at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, USA.

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