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Toward a second republic? Algeria and the Amazigh question -- Obscure no longer: Libyan Amazigh in a fractured polity -- Azawad: the abortive republic -- Tunisia: the Amazigh factor enters the realm -- Moroccan Amazigh and the makhzen: from recognition to malaise.

On television, the Arab Spring took place in Cairo, Tunis, and the city-states of the Persian Gulf. Yet the drama of 2010, and the decade of subsequent activism, extended beyond the cities—indeed, beyond Arabs. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman brings to light the sustained post–Arab Spring political movement of North Africa's Amazigh people. The Amazigh movement did not begin with the Arab Spring, but it has changed significantly since then. Amazigh Politics in the Wake of the Arab Spring details the increasingly material goals of Amazigh activism, as protest has shifted from the arena of ethnocultural recognition to that of legal and socioeconomic equality. Amazigh communities responded to the struggles for freedom around them by pressing territorial and constitutional claims while rejecting official discrimination and neglect. Arab activists, steeped in postcolonial nationalism and protective of their hegemonic position, largely refused their support, yet flailing regimes were forced to respond to sharpening Amazigh demands or else jeopardize their threadbare legitimacy. Today the Amazigh question looms larger than ever, as North African governments find they can no longer ignore the movement's interests

Introduction xi. - I: THE EMERGENCE OF ARAB NATIONALISM: ONE NATION, MANY STATES I. - 1 Arab Nationalism: Modest Beginnings 3. - 2 World War I and Its Aftermath: The Arab Revolt and Unrealized Expectations 15. - 3 State-Building and Nation-Building in Adverse Circumstances 25. - 4 The Dynastic Era: Upheaval, Revolution, and Transition (1945-1954) 47. - 5 The Radical Heyday (1955-1967) 69. - II: FROM ORDER TO DISORDER: THE TRIUMPH AND DECLINE OF ARAB STATES 99. - 6 After the June 1967 Debacle: Picking Up the Pieces (1967-1970) 101. - 7 Diminished Leadership: Egypt and the Arab Order in the Sadat-Mubarak Era (1970-2010) 109. - 8 Failed Aspirations, Failed State: Iraq Under Saddam, and Beyond(1968-2010) 131. - 9 Syria Under the Asad Dynasty: From Weak State to Aspiring Regional Power (1970-2010) 153. - 10 Symbol versus Substance: The Palestinian Movement in the Arab Firmament Since 1967 169. - 11 The Arab Spring: Disorder and Disintegration 185. - Concluding Observations: Whither the Arab System? Whither the Arab State? 213

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Origins and conquests : Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, Arabia -- The colonial era -- Morocco and Algeria : state consolidation and Berber "otherness" -- Algerian strife, Moroccan homeopathy, and the emergence of the Amazigh movement -- Berber identity and the international arena -- Mohamed VI's Morocco and the Amazigh movement -- Bouteflika's Algeria and Kabyle alienation -- Conclusion : whither the state, whither the Berbers?