Center for Strategic Communication

Supporting Material & Further Reading

 General Analysis

 “An Arab Uprising List: History Would Be Useless If It Taught Us Nothing,”  The Moor Next Door (blog), http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/an-arab-uprising-list-history-would-be-useless-if-it-taught-us-nothing

Revolution and Political Transformation in the Middle East: Agents of Change. The Middle East Institute, Viewpoints Archive, http://www.mei.edu/Publications/WebPublications/Viewpoints/ViewpointsArchive/tabid/541/ctl/Detail/mid/1623/xmid/2076/xmfid/11/Default.aspx

Revolution and Political Transformation in the Middle East: Government Action and Response. The Middle East Institute, Viewpoints Archive, http://www.mei.edu/Publications/WebPublications/Viewpoints/ViewpointsArchive/tabid/541/ctl/Detail/mid/1623/xmid/2111/xmfid/11/Default.aspx

Revolution and Political Transformation in the Middle East: Outcomes and Prospects. The Middle East Institute, Viewpoints Archive, http://www.mei.edu/Publications/WebPublications/Viewpoints/ViewpointsArchive/tabid/541/ctl/Detail/mid/1623/xmid/2174/xmfid/11/Default.aspx

“What Obama And American Liberals Don’t Understand About The Arab Spring,” The New Republic, http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/95538/arab-spring-obama-realism-democracy-neoconservatives-mubarak

Khalil al-Anani, “Islamists Today: Islamists and the Revolution,” http://islamists2day-e.blogspot.com/2011/09/islamists-and-revolution.html

Tina Casey, “Study: Twitter Played Pivotal Role In Arab Spring,” TPM Idea Lab, http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/study-twitter-played-pivotal-role-in-arab-spring.php?ref=fpblg

Adeel Malik, “The economics of the Arab Spring – Opinion.” Al Jazeera English, http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/10/20111010142425419849.html?utm_content=automateplus&utm_campaign=Trial6&utm_source=SocialFlow&utm_medium=MasterAccount&utm_term=tweets

Samuel Tadros, “Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood After the Revolution,” Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, http://www.currenttrends.org/research/detail/egypts-muslim-brotherhood-after-the-revolution

Hassan Mneimneh, “The Spring of a New Political Salafism?” Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, http://www.currenttrends.org/research/detail/the-spring-of-a-new-political-salafism

Seyla Benhabib, “The Arab Spring: Religion, Revolution and the Public Square,” Transformations of the Public Sphere, http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/benhabib-the-arab-spring-religion-revolution-and-the-public-square/

"Young, jobless and looking for trouble," Schumpeter (The Economist) (Blog), http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2011/02/youth_unemployment