Description: "The book's central argument demystifies the many faces of the myth of "cultural exceptionalism" in the context of contemporary social movements in the MENA region"--
Review Quotes: In this timely and well-crafted volume Mahdavi has pulled out the top gun scholars and critical thinkers collectively concerned with the fate of democratic aspirations in Arab and Muslim world to reflect back at the revolutionary uprisings of 2010s from the vantage point of 2020s. The prose and politics of this very volume are the clearest indication that Arab revolutions have spectacularly succeeded to alter our critical consciousness of the world.-- "Hamid Dabashi, author of Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism"