Newsletter Civil Society in West Asia, Issue 3

Understanding - Not Appropriating - Revolution

Tags: Iran , Syria , Civil Society in West Asia

The uprisings in the Arab world had not even been in full swing before various political agendas scrambled to appriopriate them. Many opinions appear to be caught up in clichés and analyses colored by blatant attemps to only see self-serving and worn-out world perspectives confirmed. It is against this background that sobering and thorough academic research on the origins and nature of the Arab uprisings gains urgent value.