NEWTON: Women Rising
Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad, Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring (New York...
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Category: Books
NEWTON: You Can Crush the Flowers
Bahia Shehab, You Can Crush the Flowers: A Visual Memoir of the Egyptian Revolution (Gingko...
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NEWTON: Coups and Revolutions
Amy Austin Holmes, Coups and Revolutions: Mass Mobilization, the Egyptian Military, and the United States from Mubarak to Sisi (Oxford University Press, 2019; paperback spring 2021).
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
Amy Austin Holmes (AAH): Initially I had no plans to write a book on Egypt. I moved to Cairo in 2008 when I was hired as …
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NEWTON: Contesting the Iranian Revolution
Pouya Alimagham, Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
Pouya Alimagham (PA): There are many reasons why I wrote the book. First, I saw the Green Uprising unfold in real-time and I was captivated by how the demonstrators harnessed Iran’s revolutionary history to protest the outcome of the …
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NEWTON: Giving to God
Amira Mittermaier, Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times (University of California Press, 2019).
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
Amira Mittermaier (AM): The central question of the book—what it means to give to God by way of giving to the poor—goes back to my longstanding fascination with all things invisible. More concretely, my earlier work on …
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