Civilian jihad : nonviolent struggle, democratization, and governance in the Middle East / edited by Maria J. Stephan.

Stephan, Maria J.
1st ed.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
v, 344 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
(The Palgrave Macmillan series on civil resistance)
9780230621411
Government, Resistance to – Middle East.
Government, Resistance to – Middle East – Case studies.
Nonviolence – Middle East.
Nonviolence – Middle East – Case studies.
Middle East – Politics and government – 1945-.
Middle East – Politics and government – 1945- – Case studies.
DS 63.1 .S74 2009
20688
“The Muslim Pashtun movement of the North-West frontier of India, 1930-1934”—(p. 107).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Introduction
Maria J. Stephan (p. 1-14)—[01] Theory and dynamics nonviolent action
Hardy Merriman (p. 17-29)—[02] Questions and controversies about nonviolent political struggle in the middle east : Arab Objections to General Strategy of nonviolent political struggle
Ralph E. Crow and Philip Grant (p. 31-42)—[03] No silence, no violence : a post-Islamist trajectory
Asef Bayat (p. 43-52)—[04] Humor and resistance in the Arab world and greater Middle East
Khalid Kishtainy (p. 53-63)—[05] Islamists and nonviolent action
Shadi Hamid (p. 65-78)—[06] Free at last! Free at last! Allahu Akbar, we are free at last! parallels between modern Arab and Islamic activism and the U.S. civil rights movement
Rami G. Khouri (p. 79-89)—[07] External actors and nonviolent struggles in the middle East
Stephen Zunes and Saad Eddin Ibrahim (p. 91-104)—[08] The Muslim Pashtun movement of the North-West frontier of India, 1930-1934
Mohammad Raqib (p. 107-118)—[09] noncooperation in the Golan heights : a case of nonviolent resistance
R. Scott Kennedy (p. 119-129)—[10] Palestinian civil resistance against Israeli military occupation
Mary Elizabeth King (p. 131-155)—[11] The nonviolent struggle for self-determination in Western Sahara
Salka Barca and Stephen Zunes (p. 157-168)—[12] Lebanon’s independence Intifada : how an unarmed insurrection expelled Syrian forces
Rudy Jaafar and Maria J. Stephan (p. 169-182)—[13] Iran’s Islamic revolution and nonviolent struggle
Mohsen Sazegara and Maria J. Stephan (p. 185-204)—[14] Enough is not enough : achievements and shortcomings of Kefaya, the Egyptian movement for change
Sherif Mansour (p. 205-218)—[15] The orange movement of Kuwait : civic pressure transforms a political system
Hamad Albloshi and Faisal Alfahad (p. 219-232)—[16] Hizbullah : delimiting the boundaries of nonviolent resistance?
Rola el-Husseini (p. 235-252)—[17] Winning the mainstream : Arba Imahot, the four mothers movement in Israel
Tamar Hermann (p. 253-264)—[18] Popular resistance against corruption in Turkey and Egypt
Shaazka Beyerle and Arwa Hassan (p. 265-279)—[19] The Iranian women’s movement : repression versus nonviolent resolve
Fariba Davoudi Mohajer, Roya Toloui, and Shaazka Beyerle (p. 281-299)—[20] Conclusion
Maria J. Stephan (p. 301-316).