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In 2011, the international community watched as citizens mobilized through the Internet and digital media to topple three of the world's most entrenched dictators: Ben Ali in Tunisia Mubarak in Egypt, and Qaddafi in Libya. This book examines not only the unexpected evolution of events during the Arab Spring but the longer history of desperate - and creative - digital activism through the Arab world

From its inception in September 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement has been linked to the revolutions and popular uprisings throughout North Africa and the Middle East that have gone under the name of the Arab Spring. This connection is reflected in the official OWS website, which declares: 'We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.' While the rich and complex set of popular struggles across North African and the Middle East cannot be reduced to a single 'tactic,' this acknowledgement of the Arab Spring as an inspiration for the Occupy movement represents my point of departure for considering OWS within current conversations about global solidarity. More specifically, the claims and practices of Occupy highlight an important distinction between the movement's self-understanding of being inspired by the Arab Spring versus the even more important question of how a U.S.-based movement can stand in solidarity with popular movements throughout North Africa and the Middle East, as well as the less publicized popular movements throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acronyms -- Preface -- Timeline of the Global Protests, 2010-13 -- 1. Introduction -- Part One: the Arab Spring Uprisings and their Aftermaths -- 2. Teargas, Flags and the Harlem Shake: Images of and for Revolution in Tunisia and the Dialectics of the Local in the Global -- 3. Singing the Revolt in Tahrir Square: Euphoria, Utopia and Revolution -- 4. 'I Dreamed of Being a People': Egypt's Revolution, the People and Critical Imagination -- 5. The Body of the Colonel: Caricature and Incarnation in the Libyan Revolution -- 6. Poetry of Protest: Tribes in Yemen's 'Change Revolution' -- Part Two: Beyond the Arab Spring - Asia and Africa -- 7. A Fractured Solidarity: Communitas and Structure in the Israeli 2011 Social Protest -- 8. Gandhi, Camera, Action! India's 'August Spring' -- 9. Short Circuits: The Aesthetics of Protest, Media and Martyrdom in Indian Anti-corruption Activism -- 10. 'The Mother of all Strikes': Popular Protest Culture and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Botswana Public Service Unions' Strike, 2011 -- Part Three: Beyond the Arab Spring - American and European Protests -- 11. Vernacular Culture and Grassroots Activism: Non-violent Protest and Progressive Ethos at the 2011 Wisconsin Labour Rallies -- 12. Occupy Wall Street: Carnival Against Capital? Carnivalesque as Protest Sensibility -- 13. Subversion through Performance: Performance Activism in London -- 14. Spain's Indignados and the Mediated Aesthetics of Non-violence -- 15 The Poetics of Indignation in Greece: Anti-austerity Protest and Accountability -- About the Contributors -- Web Sources for Figures -- Index

"Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, The Sharia State examines the Islamist concept of political order. This order is based on a new interpretation of sharia and has been dubbed "the Islamic state" by Islamists. The concept of "the Islamic state," has been elevated to a political agenda and it is this agenda that is examined here. In contrast to the prevailing view which sees the Arab Spring as a revolution, this book argues that the phenomenon has been neither a Spring, nor a revolution. The term 'Arab Spring, ' connotes a just rebellion that led to toppling dictators and authoritarian rulers, yet in The Sharia State, Bassam Tibi challenges the unchecked assumption that the seizure of leadership by Islamists is a part of the democratization of the Middle East."--Publisher website

1. Revolutions in Middle East and Northern Africa -- 2. Islamic constitutionalism and the Arab Spring -- 3. Unsuccessful revolutions within the Arab Spring wave : the cases of Morocco and Libya -- 4. The case of Tunisia : history of personal constitutionalism -- 5. The case of Egypt.