Social movements, mobilization, and contestation in the Middle East and North Africa

Pt. 1. Authoritarianisms and oppositions. Protesting in authoritarian situations : Egypt and Morocco in comparative perspective / Frédéric Vairel. - Leaving Islamic activism behind : ambiguous disengagement in Saudi Arabia / Pascal Menoret. - Egyptian leftist intellectuals' activism from the margins : overcoming the mobilization / demobilization dichotomy / Marie Duboc. - pt. 2. Mobilizing for rights. Three decades of human rights activism in the Middle East and North Africa : an ambiguous balance sheet / Joe Stork. - Presence in silence : feminist and democratic implications of the Saturday vigils in Turkey / Zeynep Gülru Göker. - Mobilizations for western Thrace and Cyprus in contemporary Turkey : from the far right to the lexicon of human rights / Jeanne Hersant. - pt. 3. Islamic social movements. The Egyptian Jama'a al-Islamiyya as a social movement / Roel Meijer. - Hizbullah's women : internal transformation in a social movement and militia / Anne Marie Baylouny. - pt. 4. Labor struggles. A workers' social movement on the margin of the global neoliberal order, Egypt 2004-2009 / Joel Beinin. - From Europe to Turkey : a case of the variable value of resources / Emre Öngün. - Unemployed Moroccan university graduates and strategies for "apolitical" mobilization / Montserrat Emperador Badimon. Includes bibliographical references and index. XIV, 308 p. ; 24 cm.