Arab spring dreams : the next generation speaks out for freedom and justice from North Africa to Iran /
"During the Arab Spring, the world saw a long-suppressed group in the Middle East--young people--assert itself and demand its rights. But youthful dissent did not appear overnight; for decades it has been simmering beneath the surface in countries from Saudi Arabia to Yemen, from Iran to Egypt....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreward / Gloria Steinem
- Introduction : a new generation of reformers speaks out
- "I am not Ayman!"
- Monologue with the prince
- Living inside 1984
- Leaving Ahlam behind
- Seeking salvation
- Citizen or subject?
- At the polling station
- Memoirs of an Egyptian citizen
- My medal of blasphemy
- The shredded exam card
- The Eid al-Adha bribe
- The tragedy of my lover
- Art in a cage
- Black like me
- A Persian grandmother in Tokyo
- Breaking news : MP reveals herself as banned poet
- The sacred membrane
- The cat at the border crossing
- Women in a maze
- Women unwelcome
- The closing of my anonymous blog
- Hijacking the school play
- Heaven is beneath mothers' feet
- My sacred no!
- Contaminating minds
- Breaking news : Eqyptian apostate refuses asylum
- Every prayer is a gift
- "The land is for all"
- Triumph of the half-naked
- Breaking through the Shari'a loophole
- Student liberation front
- Dreams in a drawer
- "Iran, I will build you again"
- Undermining Decree Six
- Driving toward equality
- Just another day in 2013
- Anonymous no more
- Conclusion : our dream deferred
- Coeditors
- Acknowledgments
- Index.