Book Reviews
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Book Review – Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring by Asef Bayat
Citation: Romdhani, Messaoud (2022) ‘Book Review – Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring by Asef Bayat’, Rowaq Arabi…
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Book Review: ‘Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring’, edited by Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad
Women’s participation in contentious politicsis at the centre of Western academia’s understanding of the Arab Spring. Some scholars were surprised…
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Book Review: The Islamic Question before the United Nations Human Rights Committee by Yadh Ben Achour
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent instruments of international human rights law are meant to provide protection for…
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Book Review: The ‘War on Terror,’ State Crime, and Radicalisation by Shamila Ahmed
Since its start twenty years ago in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the US, the ‘war on terror’…
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Book Review: The Geopolitics of Covid-19
Géopolitique du Covid-19: Ce que nous révèle le crise du coronavirus [The Geopolitics of Covid-19: What the Coronavirus Crisis Tells…
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Book Review – Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World
The history of human rights, with its roots in religion, philosophy and revolution, stretches back centuries. Yet, as Samuel Moyn,…
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Book Review: Revolts and the Military in the Arab Spring
History sheds a light on the ambivalent relationship between the military and civil government. A mere glance at 20th-century events…
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Book Review: Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression
In February 2020, Belgium got caught in a controversy that had been in the making for over a year. The…
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Book Review: Democratization against Democracy
Democratisation Against Democracy, published as part of The European Union in International Affairs series by Palgrave Macmillan (2020), is a…
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Book Review: For the Love of Humanity by Ayça Çubukçu
The Vietnam anti-war movement defined a decade with its music, persistence and purpose. At least one feature of this movement…
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