| Table of Contents |
| | Acknowledgments | ix |
| | Foreword Jadaliyya: Archiving the Revolution / Roger Owen | x |
| | Introduction / Ziad Abu-Rish | 1 |
| SECTION I | OPENING ARTICLES | |
| 1. | Impromptu: A Word / Sinan Antoon | 7 |
| 2. | Preliminary Historical Observations on the Arab Revolutions of 2011 / Rashid Khalidi | 9 |
| 3. | Awakening, Cataclysm, or Just a Series of Events? Reflections on the Current Wave of Protest in the Arab World / Michael Hudson | 17 |
| 4. | Paradoxes of Arab Refo-lutions / Asef Bayat | 28 |
| 5. | The Year of the Citizen / Mouin Rabbani | 33 |
| 6. | Three Powerfully Wrong---and Wrongfully Powerful---American Narratives about the Arab Spring / Stacey Philbrick Yadav | 37 |
| SECTION II | TUNISIA | |
| 7. | The Tunisian Revolution: Initial Reflections / Mohammed Bamyeh | 49 |
| 8. | Tunisia's Glorious Revolution and its Implications / Noureddine Jebnoun | 59 |
| 9. | Let's Not Forget about Tunisia / Nouri Gana | 66 |
| 10. | The Battle for Tunisia / Nouri Gana | 71 |
| SECTION III | EGYPT | |
| 11. | The Poetry of Revolt / Elliott Colla | 77 |
| 12. | Why Mubarak is Out / Paul Amar | 83 |
| 13. | Egypt's Revolution 2.0: The Facebook Factor / Linda Herrera | 91 |
| 14. | Egypt's Three Revolutions: The Force of History Behind this Popular Uprising / Omnia El Shakry | 97 |
| 15. | The Architects of the Egyptian Uprising and the Challenges Ahead / Saba Mahmood | 104 |
| 16. | The Revolution Against Neoliberalism / Walter Armbrust | 113 |
| 17. | Egypt's Orderly Transition: International Aid and the Rush to Structural Adjustment / Adam Hanieh | 124 |
| SECTION IV | LIBYA | |
| 18. | The Arabs in Africa / Callie Maidhof | 139 |
| 19. | Tribes of Libya as the Third Front: Myths and Realities of Non-State Actors in the Long Battle for Misrata / Jamila Benkato | 143 |
| 20. | Solidarity and Intervention in Libya / Ziad Abu-Rish | 150 |
| SECTION V | BAHRAIN | |
| 21. | Let's Talk about Sect / Tahiyya Lulu | 161 |
| 22. | Distortions of Dialogue / Tahiyya Lulu | 165 |
| 23. | When Petro-Dictators Unite: The Bahraini Opposition's Struggle for Survival / Ziad Abu-Rish | 169 |
| SECTION VI | YEMEN | |
| 24. | Yemen's Turn: An Overview / Lara Aryani | 177 |
| 25. | How it Started in Yemen: From Tahrir to Taghyir / Nir Rosen | 182 |
| 26. | Saleh Defiant / Ziad Abu-Rish | 200 |
| SECTION VII | SYRIA | |
| 27. | Why Syria is Not Next...So Far / Bassam Haddad | 207 |
| 28. | Fear of Arrest / Hani Sayed | 210 |
| 29. | Syrian Hope: A Journal / Amal Hanano | 225 |
| SECTION VIII | REGIONAL REVERBERATIONS OF THE ARAB UPRISINGS | |
| 30. | The Political Status Quo, Economic Development, and Protests in Jordan / Ziad Abu-Rish | 237 |
| 31. | Dissent and its Discontents: Protesting the Saudi State / Rosie Bsheer | 248 |
| 32. | The Never Ending Story: Protests and Constitutions in Morocco / Francesco Cavatorta | 260 |
| 33. | Emergencies and Economics: Algeria and the Politics of Memory / Muriam Haleh Davis | 266 |
| 34. | Iraq and its Tahrir Square / Zainab Saleh | 270 |
| 35. | Tahrir's Other Sky / Sherene Seikaly | 274 |
| 36. | What is [the] Left? / Maya Mikdashi | 278 |
| | Epilogue: Parting Thoughts / Madawi Al-Rasheed | 281 |
| | Notes | 286 |
| | Index | 297 |
