Civilian Jihad. Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization, and Governance in the Middle East

- Stephan- Introduction
I Overview
- Merriman- Theory and Dynamics of Nonviolent Action
- Crow and Grant- Questions and Controversies about Nonviolent Political Struggle in the Middle East
- Bayat- No Silence, No Violence: A Post-Islamist Trajectory
- Kishtainy- Humor and Resistance in the Arab World and Greater Middle East
- Hamid- Islamists and Nonviolent Action
- Khouri- Free at last! Free at last! Allahu Akbar, We are free at last! Parallels betwen modern Arab and Islamic Activism and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
- Zunes and Ibrahim- External Actors and Nonviolent Struggles
II Case studies
a) Challenging Foreign Occupation and Fighting for Self-Determination
- Raqib- The Muslim Pashtun Movement of the North-West Frontier of India, 1930 - 1934
- Kennedy- Noncooperation in the Golan Heights: A Case of Nonviolent Resistance
- King- Palestinian Civil Resistance against Israeli Military Occupation
- Barca and Zunes- The Nonviolent Struggle for Self-determination in Western Sahara
- Jaafar and Stephan- Lebanon's Independence Intifada: How an Unarmed Insurrection Expelled Syrian Forces
b) Challenging Domestic Tyranny and Promoting Democratic Reform
- Sazegara and Stephan- Iran's Islamic Revolution and Nonviolent Struggle
- Mansour- Enough Is Not Enough; Achievements and Shortcomings of Kefaya, The Egyptian Movement for Change
- Albloshi and Alfahad- The Orange Movement of Kuwait: Civic Pressure Transforms a Political System
C) Movements for Social and Political Rights
- el-Husseini- Hizbullah: Delimiting the Boundaries of Nonviolent Resistance?
- Hermann- Winning the Mainstream: Arba Imahot, the Four Mothers Movement in Israel
- Beyerle and Hassan- Popular Resistance against Corruption in Turkey aand Egypt
- Mohajer, Toloui and Beyerle- The Iranian Women's Movement: Repression Versus Nonviolent Resistance
- Stephan- Conclusion