Stories about institutions and regimes that have failed us are echoing worldwide. This book critically engages the multiple uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) following the self-immolation of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in December 2010. It brings together authors who critically analyse the unstoppable force unleashed in the streets of Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Syria, Libya and Yemen.

1. Introduction - Rocking the Kasbah: Insurrectional Politics, the "Arab Streets", and Global Revolution in the 21st Century 2. An African Reflection on Tahrir Square 3. Looking Beyond Spring for the Season: An African Perspective on the World Order after the Arab Revolt 4. The Global Street: Making the Political 5. Making Anew an Arab Regional Order? On Poetry, Sex, and Revolution 6. Uprisings in 'Arab Streets', Revolutions in 'Arab Minds'! A Provocation 7. Stratagems and Spoils in US Policy in the Middle East 8. Unrest and Change: Dispatches from the Frontline of a Class War in Egypt 9. Tehran's Delayed Spring? 10. Model, Event, Context: Globalization, Arab Social Movements, and the Modeling of Global Order 11. The Winter of the Arab Spring in the Gulf Monarchies 12. Radical Changes in the Muslim World: Turkey, Iran, Egypt 13. Authoritarian Learning and Authoritarian Resilience: Regime Responses to the 'Arab Awakening' 14. Globalizations Forum on Middle East Protests: Commentary 15. Libya's 'Black' Market Diplomacies: Opacity and Entanglement in the Face of Hope and Horror 16. Revolutionary Humor 17. Role of the New Media in the Arab Spring 18. Talk About a Revolution: Social Media and the MENA Uprisings