The new Arabs
Subtitle: how the millennial generation is changing the Middle East
By: Juan Cole
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781451690392
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Technological innovations; Online social networks; Arabs; Youth; Internet; Political aspects; Political participation; Political activity
Description: "The renowned blogger and Middle East expert Juan Cole illuminates the role of today's Arab youth--who they are, what they want, and how they will affect world politics. Beginning in January 2011, the revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests, riots, and civil wars that comprised what many call "the Arab Spring" shook the world. These upheavals were spearheaded by youth movements, and yet the crucial role they played is relatively unknown. Middle East expert Juan Cole is here to share their stories. For three decades, Cole has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. In The New Arabs he outlines the history that led to the dramatic changes in the region, and explores how a new generation of men and women are using innovative notions of personal rights to challenge the authoritarianism, corruption, and stagnation that had afflicted their societies. Not all big cohorts of teenagers and twenty-somethings necessarily produce movements centered on their identity as youth, with a generational set of organizations, symbols, and demands rooted at least partially in the distinctive problems besetting people of their age. The Arab Millennials did. And, in a provocative and optimistic argument about the future of the Arab world, The New Arabs shows just how they did it"--

"The renowned blogger and Middle East expert Juan Cole illuminates the role of today's Arab youth--who they are, what they want, and how they will affect world politics"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Arab millennials; title: The republican monarchs; title: "Giants of meat and steel: I come to you from cyberspace!"; title: The new Left; title: From Bouazizi to Tahrir; title: Tunisia: "Leave my creators alone!"; title: Egypt: from April to rebellion; title: Libya's youth rebels.