By Haris A. Durrani The global quality of uprisings posed an important question in 3/13: The Arab Spring, as it has throughout Uprising[1]. Interlocutors debated the extent to which a conception of uprising, the “Arab Spring,” homogenizes a set… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Perry Anderson, “On the Concatenation in the Arab World.” Asef Bayat, Revolution Without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Chapter 1 (Stanford University Press, 2017) Tariq Ali, Between Past and Future. New Left Review 80, March-April 2013 (responding to… Continue Reading
There are passing references to the Palestinian experience of uprising in the readings for Uprising 3/13. Did the First Intifada, in particular, serve in any way as a model for the protests of the Arab Spring? Commentators have pointed out parallels between… Continue Reading
Bhargav Rani, editor-in-chief of the CUNY Advocate, has written a brilliant, lengthy editorial, titled “To Revolution or Not to Revolution” (Oct 10, 2017) addressing the central problematics of Uprising 13/13. Rani urges us to place these questions at the heart… Continue Reading
By Melvyn Ingleby Thanks to the financial support of CCCCT, I was able to attend a Granada summer school organized by DialogoGlobal, a collective of decolonial academics and activists that also hosts similar events in Barcelona, Mexico City, Bahia (Brazil),… Continue Reading
The Uprising 13/13 seminars can be accessed virtually and you can fully participate in the series from a distance. Here are some ways to be part of the seminar even if you are not physically at Columbia University in New… Continue Reading