A Reading of the Arab Revolutions: Tyranny and the Implications of Change

Abstract

This paper reviews a group of books published by the ACRPS that deal with the Syrian revolution: Azmi Bishara’s “Syria’s Via Dolorosa towards Freedom: An Attempt at Current History”; “Backgrounds to the Revolution: Syrian Studies” (multiple authors); Hamza Almustafa’s “The Online Public Sphere in the Syrian Revolution: Features, Directions, Mechanisms of Public Opinion Formation”; and Jamal Barout’s “The Last Decade of Syrian History: Dialectic of Stagnation and Reform.”