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This is an open access book. The start of the 21st century has seen
the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow
Vests, from the Occupy movement to the social uprisings in Latin
America. There are periods in history when large numbers of people
have rebelled against the way things are, demanding change, such as
in 1848, 1917, and 1968. Today we are living in another time of
outrage and discontent, a time that has already produced some of
the largest protests in world history. This book analyzes almost
three thousand protests that occurred between 2006 and 2020 in 101
countries covering over 93 per cent of the world population. The
study focuses on the major demands driving world protests, such as
those for real democracy, jobs, public services, social protection,
civil rights, global justice, and those against austerity and
corruption. It also analyzes who was demonstrating in each protest;
what protest methods they used; who the protestors opposed; what
was achieved; whether protests were repressed; and trends such as
inequality and the rise of women's and radical right protests. The
book concludes that the demands of protestors in most of the
protests surveyed are in full accordance with human rights and
internationally agreed-upon UN development goals. The book calls
for policy-makers to listen and act on these demands.
Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is a fascinating and highly
experimental story based loosely around the author's own
experiences in Egypt as a Moroccan student and visiting
intellectual. In Cairo the narrator, Hammad, takes us on a deeply
personal journey of discovery from the heady days of the 1950s and
1960s, with all the optimism and excitement surrounding Moroccan
independence, Suez, and Abdel Nasser, up to the 1990s and the time
of writing, revealing an individual intensely concerned with Arab
life and culture. Meanwhile, his regular visits to Cairo allow us
to watch a culture in transition over four decades. Exploring
themes of change, the role of culture in society, memory, and
writing, in a text that combines narrative fiction with literary
criticism, philosophical musings, and quotation, Like a Summer
Never to Be Repeated is among the most innovative works of modern
Arabic literature and a testimony to Mohammed Berrada's position as
a leading pioneer.
Arab women's writing in the modern age began with 'A'isha
al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other
nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique
study-first published in Arabic in 2004-looks at the work of those
pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's literature
through the end of the twentieth century, and also includes a
meticulously researched, comprehensive bibliography of writing by
Arab women. In the first section, in nine essays that cover the
Arab Middle East from Morocco to Iraq and Syria to Yemen, critics
and writers from the Arab world examine the origin and evolution of
women's writing in each country in the region, addressing fiction,
poetry, drama, and autobiographical writing.The second part of the
volume contains bibliographical entries for over 1,200 Arab women
writers from the last third of the nineteenth century through 1999.
Each entry contains a short biography and a bibliography of each
author's published works. This section also includes Arab women's
writing in French and English, as well as a bibliography of works
translated into English.With its broad scope and extensive
research, this book is an indispensable resource for anyone
interested in Arabic literature, women's studies, or comparative
literature. Contributors: Emad Abu Ghazi, Radwa Ashour, Mohammed
Berrada, Ferial J. Ghazoul, Subhi Hadidi, Haydar Ibrahim, Yumna
al-'Id, Su'ad al-Mani', Iman al-Qadi, Amina Rachid, Huda al-Sadda,
Hatim al-Sakr.
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