Reviewed Work: The Virtual and the Revolution: The Place of the Internet in the Emergence of an Arab Civil Society by Jawhar al-Jamusi
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Author: Jawhar al-Jamusi Place of publication: Beirut, Lebanon Date of publication: 2016 Publisher: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies No. of pages: 224 The term “civil society” has circulated widely in the Arab World in the past few years, playing a pioneering role in the Arab Revolutions of 2011 onwards. This term is still trying to prove itself and its influence on Arab public opinion. The main credit for this influence has belonged to modern electronic media, which has shown a surprising efficacy to secure the success of these revolutions and a capacity to mobilize the masses in different ways. Jawhar al-Jamusi’s The Virtual and the Revolution fits within this general context, seeking an understanding of the conflict between political authority and civil authority in contemporary Arab societies, and specifically the problematic of the relationship between what is civil and what is political in transitional periods.
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- Professor of Sociology, Lebanese University
- For more information on digital diplomacy, see: Nadim Mansouri, “Sōsiyōlōjiya al-Internēt” (Beirut: Muntadā al-Maʿārif, 2014), pp. 158-162; Andreas Andre, Digital Diplomacy Conversations on Innovation in Foreign Policy (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015), pp. 47 - 56.
- Samuel Huntington, “Democracy’s Third Wave,” Journal of Democracy 2:2 (Spring 1991).
- Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), p. 16. thirty languages including Arabic.
- Considered one of the world’s leading theorists on non-violent struggle against occupation and indigenous despotism, Sharp worked for more than thirty years as a researcher at the Center of International Affairs at Harvard, and today works as a researcher at the Albert Einstein Institute (which he used to head). He has also been active in non-violent resistance in conflicts in the USA. His most famous book is From Dictatorship to Democracy , translated into more than
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