Passive, Silent and Revolutionary: The ‘Arab Spring’ Revisited

Passive, Silent and Revolutionary: The ‘Arab Spring’ Revisited

To counter the trend toward mechanization of research and aridity of critical analysis, this article makes a case for an interdisciplinary quest. To borrow Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze's phrase, we are convinced that 'everything is political, but every politics is simultaneously a macropolitics and a micropolitics.' With an eye to open-ended research questions, this article attempts to bui...

Media and Revolutionary Movements in the Arab Countries

Demystifying the Arab Spring

In Tunisia, protesters escalated calls for the restoration of the country's suspended constitution. Meanwhile, Egyptians rose in revolt as strikes across the country brought daily life to a halt and toppled the government. In Libya, provincial leaders worked feverishly to strengthen their newly independent republic. It was 1919. That year's events demonstrate that the global diffusion of inform...

The United States and the Arab Spring

This article reveals, by studying correlative relationships between US regime support and regime properties, that the US foreign policy in the Middle East has traditionally helped governments to limit the political participation of Islamists, communists, enemies of Israel and populations that could be hostile to the US oil interests. This way the US economic and strategic security interests hav...

media and revolutionary movements in the arab countries

revolutionary movements which began in tunis in 2010 immediately impressed all arab countries. these movements have led to many essential changes in the middle east. so far, four presidents have been ousted from power. revolutionary forces in the arab world to achieve their goals used media. so the media played a large role in the revolutionary changes in the arab countries. given the media&apo...