The Arab Spring 2011-present   Tags: arab spring, art, bahrain, democracy, egypt, facebook, graffiti, human rights, islam, middle east, revolution, saudi arabia, syria, tahrir square, tunisia, yemen  

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Revolution 2.0 - Wael Ghonim

Call Number: DT107.828.G445 A3 2012

ISBN: 9780547773988

Publication Date: 2012-01-17

Wael Ghonim was a little-known, thirty-year-old Google executive in the summer of 2010 when he anonymously launched a Facebook page to protest the death of one Egyptian man at the hands of security forces. As the revolution began in earnest, Ghonim was captured and held for twelve days of brutal interrogation. After his release and tearful speech on national television the protests grew more intense. Then four days later, the president of Egypt was out of office.

Liberation Square - Ashraf Khalil

Call Number: DT107.87 .K46 2012

ISBN: 9781250006691

Publication Date: 2012-01-03

Messages from Tahrir: Signs from Egypt's Revolution - Karima Khalil

Call Number: DT107.87 .M47 2011

ISBN: 9789774165122

Publication Date: 2011-06-15

A powerful collection of images from the early protests of the Egyptian revolution.

From the self-immolation of a young Tunisian fruit seller to the overthrow of long-standing regimes across the Arab Middle East, the events of the so-called “Arab Spring” have brought renewed attention to the struggle for human dignity in this region. As events have developed since December 2010 the world has witnessed diverse forms of popular uprising that have forced scholars to question many paradigms about the political, cultural, economic  and religious structures across the Middle East. From Libya to Yemen, from Egypt to Bahrain new voices have emerged to overcome the fear of repression that has often stifled dissent and the ability to examine issues of democracy, self-determination, human rights, social reform, political and religious authority and many other concerns.  While scholars and others will debate the causes that led to these large-scale movements and speculate about their eventual outcomes, the events themselves have generated new modes of social interaction that have changed the processes through which people communicate and act in the public sphere and have fundamentally transformed the record of those activities. This site is an attempt to capture something of those processes through an engaged and even activist form of event-based librarianship.

As diplomats, politicians, activists, scholars and ordinary citizens debate what these changes will bring and whether they will truly transform the policies and conditions that affect the lives of people both within and outside of the region, it is important record and collect the ways in which these events have captured our attention.  The goal for this guide is to provide students, researchers and others, both at Brown and elsewhere, with resources that allow access to the primary and secondary sources that allow for careful analysis and understanding of these events. While no such site can serve as a complete repository, the aim is for these pages is to offer something of a representative sample of the diversity of materials available through the library and elsewhere, whether as printed matter, digital-born  media, material and visual culture and other forms of expression.

The links below are some of the most comprehensive and continuously updated sites providing a breadth of coverage on the ongoing events in the Middle East. These are good starting points for gaining a background in the issues and debates.

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