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Asaad Alsaleh - Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions - 9780231163187 - V9780231163187
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Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions

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Description for Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 3JMG; HBJF1; HBJH; HBLX; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 237 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
Narrated by dozens of activists and everyday individuals, this book documents the unprecedented events that led to the collapse of dictatorial regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Beginning in 2011, these stories offer unique access to the message that inspired citizens to act, their experiences during revolt, and the lessons they learned from some of the most dramatic changes and appalling events to occur in the history of the Arab world. The riveting, revealing, and sometimes heartbreaking stories in this volume also include voices from Syria. Featuring participants from a variety of social and educational backgrounds and political commitments, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231163187
SKU
V9780231163187
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Asaad Alsaleh
Asaad Al-Saleh is assistant professor of Arabic, comparative literature, and cultural studies in the Department of Languages and Literature and the Middle East Center at the University of Utah. His research focuses on issues related to autobiography and displacement in Arabic literature and political culture in the Arab world. Peter Sluglett is director of the Middle East Institute at ... Read more

Reviews for Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions
There's a wonderful, cumulative power to reading these personal narratives. They are gripping, extremely poignant, often heartbreaking, and astonishing. It is long overdue to finally have unmediated access to 'regular' citizens' experiences and recollections.
Mona El-Gobashy, Baheyya, of blogblogblog.com This collection is of enormous importance. The speakers in these narratives are not specialist scholars but participants in the process ... Read more

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