Publics, politics and participation : locating the public sphere in the Middle East and North Africa /
Shami, Seteney Khalid.
New York : Social Science Research Council,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Seteney Shami -- Public spheres and urban space: a critical comparative approach / Fawwaz Traboulsi -- Religious mobilization and the public sphere: reflections on alternative genealogies / Mark LeVine, Armando Salvatore -- Conflict, "commun-ication" and the role of collective action in the formation of public spheres / Zeynep Gambetti -- Counterpublics of memory: memoirs and public testimonies of the Lebanese Civil War / Sune Haugbolle -- Migrant domestic workers: a new public presence in the Middle East? / Annelies Moors ... [et al.] -- Surveillance and constituting the public in the Ottoman Empire / Cengiz Kirli -- Places in shadows, networks in transformation: an analysis of the Tehran Bazaar's publicness / Arang Keshavarzian -- The "voice of the people" (lisān al-shaʻb): the press and the public sphere in revolutionary Palestine / Michelle U. Campos -- Seeking liberty and constructing identities: Algerian publics and satellite television / Ratiba Hadj-Moussa -- Moral citizenship in Morocco's technogenic public sphere / Bahiyyih Maroon -- Weblogistan: the emergence of a new public sphere in Iran / Masserat Amir-Ebrahimi -- Students on soapboxes: the metropole in anticolonial nationalist activity / Noor-Aiman Khan -- The historical genesis of the public sphere in Iraq, 1900-1963: implications for building democracy in the post Baʻthist era / Eric Davis -- Conflict, space and the public sphere: renegotiating rules of coexistence in a postwar context / Marie Le Ray -- A tug of war: Hizbullah, participation, and contestation in the Lebanese public sphere / Joseph Alagha
Political participation
Political participation
Civil society
Civil society