Shireen AlAzzawi (Santa Clara) and Moamen Gouda (HUFS): How Muslims Understand Democracy: An Empirical Investigation. Daniel Erian Armanios (Carnegie Mellon) and Amr Adly (AUC): How Revolutions Shape (or Rather Blur) Markets: Initial Insights from the Arab Spring. Adonis on the complete failure of the Arab Spring. The Arab world needs a new social contract: Is the Arab world back to square one after all the sacrifices it has made since 2011? Valentina Fedele (Calabria): The Challenge of “Protest” Masculinities: How Arab Riots Have Changed the Representation of North-African Masculinities in the Public Space. Arab research “in crisis” due to region’s growing instability.
Fadi Farasin, Cihat Battaloglu, and Adam Bensaid (Malaya): What is Causing Radicalism in the MENA? Ewan Stein reviews Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World by Shadi Hamid. Is Islamist-secularist a contradiction in terms? Rayyan Al-Shawaf reviews Confronting Political Islam: Six Lessons from the West’s Past by John M. Owen.
