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

“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).