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Political Identities and Popular Uprisings in the Middle East

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Identity plays an important part in terms of how we imagine our relationship with the state and governing bodies. If we know who we are, then we can know and articulate what we want as political actors. This book examines the relationship between identity and political dissent in the context of the Arab and non-Arab Middle East by focusing on recent uprisings and protests in the region. The case studies here - Iran, Palestine, Israel, Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan - highlight a number of dynamics and different forms of resistance. These examples show how political identities are multiple, not static and that they are too complex to be reduced to superficial dichotomies of Islamism vs. secularism or Sunnism vs. Shi'ism. Through examining the relationship between everyday grassroots politics and the question of identity, as well as elite identity discourses, this volume presents a textured analysis of the region's dynamic political communities. This book explores how different identities must be navigated, negotiated and how they intersect at a time of dramatic change in the Middle East.
Note on Transliteration / Acknowledgements / 1. Introduction, Shabnam J. Holliday and Philip Leech / 2. Divided we stand? The Heterogeneous Political Identities of Iran's 2009-2010 Uprisings, Shabnam J. Holliday and Paola Rivetti / 3. The Spring in Sulaimani: Kurdish Protest and Political Identities, Nicole F. Watts / 4. Underlying Fragility: the absence of hegemony and popular demonstrations in the West Bank 2011-12, Philip Leech / 5. Israeli Grassroots Activism: Recent Waves of Protests, and Heterogeneous Political Identities, Giulia Daniele / 6. From Ba'thist Nationalism to New Syrian Identities. How the Emerging Syrian Civil Society Tries to Define Itself Before, During and After the Popular Uprising, Lorenzo Trombetta / 7. Political identities and the Uprising in Yemen, Fernando Carvajal / 8. In Want of the People. Tahrir as a Revolutionary Reconstitution of the Egyptian National-Popular Subject, Brecht De Smet / 9. The Tunisian Uprising, Ennahdha, and the Revival of an Arab-Islamic Identity, Rory McCarthy / 10. Conclusion, Shabnam J. Holliday and Philip Leech / List of Contributors / Bibliography / Index
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