Description: This book examines the contentious politics of the working classes, the dissident intelligentsia, and unexpected forms of Islamism in Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey while engaging critically with Social Movement Theory.
Review Quotes: "It is a must-read for historians and social scientists interested in social movements in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and an important resource for understanding the region's recent political change, contemporary history, and, in spite of the modest disclaimers of the editors, the uprising of 2011."--John Chalcraft, Arab Studies Journal Reviews