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The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism

By Hamid Dabashi

Book information

Publisher
Zed books
Year
2012
ISBN
1780322240, 9781780322247
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
403 kB (412736 bytes)
Pages
150\0
Time added
2012-12-20 03:04:00

Description

This pioneering elucidation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East. In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, are driven by a "Delayed Defiance" - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment that signifies no less than the end of Postcolonialism. Dabashi shows how the Arab Spring has altered the geopolitics of the region so radically that we must begin re-imagining the moral map of "the Middle East" afresh.Ultimately, a "permanent revolutionary mood" has the potential to liberate not only those already ignited, but many others through a universal geopolitics of hope.

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