MENA uprisings and transformations and their impact on Africa
By: edited by Naʻeem Jeenah
Publisher: Afro-Middle East Centre
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Craighall, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780992199869
Subjects: Politics and government; Arab Spring, 2010-; Protest movements; Revolutions; Democracy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part one: MENA uprisings: theoretical perspectives. 1. Transitions, revolutions and democratisations: conceptual clarifications / Houchang E. Chehabi; title: 2. The long road from revolution to democracy in the Middle East and North Africa: challenges and threats facing states in transition / Garth le Pere; title: Part two: Three years of uprisings: political actions and actors; title: 3. Springs and winters: interventions and interferences in the Arab uprisings / Phyllis Bennis; title: 4. 'Islamists' above ground and poised to lead: a Libyan Islamist perspective / Ashur Shamis; title: 5. Islamist re-awakening in Egypt:  from opposition movements to ruling parties / Ahmed Abd Rabou; title: 6. Law and judicialisation of politics in the Egyptian revolution / Hadi Enayat; title: 7. Egyptian liberals in the struggle for and against democracy / Daryl Glaser; title: 8. The Tunisian intifada and the way forward  / Lutfi Zaitoun; title: 9. Consequences of Ennahda's relative weakness in Tunisia: problematising negotiated revolutions / Ebrahim Shabbir Deen; title: 10. The Arab uprisings: is Algeria exceptional? / Yahia H. Zoubir; title: Part three: MENA and the rest of Africa; title: 11. After Gaddafi and Mubarak: a new role for North Africa in the African Union / Francis Nguendi Ikome; title: 12. Lessons from South Africa's reconciliation process for post-uprising states / Naʻeem Jeenah and Ebrahim Shabbir Deen.