{"id":327,"date":"2011-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Revolution and Political Transformation in the Middle East Agents of Change\u00fe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<strong>A Middle East Institute Viewpoint featuring articles by<br \/>\nStephen Zunes, Charles Schmitz, Radwan Ziadeh, Basem Fathy, and 5 other leading<br \/>\nexperts<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<strong><a href=\"File\/Reports\/RevolutionandPoliticalTransformation.pdf\">Read the full Report<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nOn February 11, 2011, Husni Mubarak resigned as President of<br \/>\nEgypt after nearly 30 years in power, echoing the end of Tunisian President<br \/>\nZine El-&#8216;Abidine Ben &#8216;Ali&#8217;s 23-year rule on January 15, 2011. Armed conflict<br \/>\nrages in Libya while Syrian military units put down protests in Homs, Hama, and<br \/>\nDayr al-Zor. Bahrain, Jordan, Yemen, and other Arab countries have also seen<br \/>\nprotests of varying intensity. These events came as a shock to many researchers<br \/>\nand practitioners studying the region. While scholars of the Middle East can<br \/>\nonly speculate which autocratic ruler will be the next to fall, the Middle East<br \/>\nInstitute opens its series on Revolution and Political Transformation by<br \/>\nreexamining and placing into context the events of the Arab Spring.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nThe first volume of this series, &quot;Agents of Change,&quot;<br \/>\nfocuses on the groups and individuals who have led the popular uprisings<br \/>\nthroughout the region. Nine scholars, journalists, and activists remind us of<br \/>\nthe history behind these movements, demonstrate the effectiveness and<br \/>\nimportance of nonviolent struggle, explore the use of social media and other<br \/>\ntools of mobilization, and investigate the characteristics and motivations of<br \/>\nthe players in the activist and rebel movements in Egypt, Libya, Syria,<br \/>\nTunisia, and Yemen.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nWe timed this volume&#8217;s release to coincide with the<br \/>\nsix-month anniversary of the resignation of Mubarak. This milestone reflects in<br \/>\nmany ways an incomplete transition and, with the Supreme Council of the Armed<br \/>\nForces still ruling in a similar to fashion to Mubarak before them, a project<br \/>\nthat remains to be finished. The pieces enclosed herein are not intended to be<br \/>\na complete analysis, but rather a variety of viewpoints and voices looking back<br \/>\nwith the benefit of some small amount of hindsight to see what lessons can be<br \/>\nlearned. Future volumes will deal with government actions and responses to the<br \/>\nArab Spring and seek to discern outcomes and prospects for future change. We<br \/>\nhope that you will stay tuned for future volumes in this series, and future<br \/>\npublications by the Middle East Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<strong><a href=\"File\/Reports\/RevolutionandPoliticalTransformation.pdf\">Read the full Report<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nOn February 11, 2011, Husni Mubarak resigned as President of Egypt after nearly 30 years in power, echoing the end of Tunisian President Zine El-&#8216;Abidine Ben &#8216;Ali&#8217;s 23-year rule on January 15, 2011. Armed conflict rages in Libya while Syrian military units put down protests in Homs, Hama, and Dayr al-Zor. Bahrain, Jordan, Yemen, and other Arab countries have also seen protests of varying intensity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}