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THE ARAB UPRISINGS PROJECT
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Project Overview

​​​December 17, 2020 marks the tenth anniversary of the start of the Arab uprisings in Tunisia. Beginning in 2011, mass uprisings swept North Africa and the Middle East, spreading from the shores of Tunisia to Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, and the Eastern Province of the Arabian Peninsula. A “second wave” of mass protests and uprisings manifested during 2019 in Sudan, Algeria, Lebanon, and Iraq. The persistence of demands for popular sovereignty even in the face of re-entrenched authoritarianism, imperial intervention, and civil strife is a critical chapter in regional and global history.

In an effort to mark, interrogate, and reflect on the Arab uprisings, we launched a yearlong set of events, reflections, and conversations. The Ten Years on Projects features a set of resources for educators, researchers, students, and journalists to understand the last decade of political upheaval historically and in the lived present.

Over the past decade, a plethora of events, texts, and artistic and cultural productions have navigated the last decade’s spectrum of affective and material registers. This project contribute to these efforts through a historically grounded, theoretically rigorous approach that collaboratively interrogates the multiple questions the Arab uprisings continue to pose. We also provide a valuable resource portal to educators, researchers, students, and journalists.

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Ten Years On: Mass Protests and Uprisings in the Arab World

Organized by: Arab Studies Institute, Princeton’s Arab Barometer, and George Mason’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Program. Co-Sponsored by: Georgetown University (Center for Contemporary Arab Studies), American University of Beirut (Asfari Institute), Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Brown University (Center for Middle East Studies), UC Santa Barbara (Center for Middle East Studies), Harvard University (Center for Middle East Studies), University of Exeter (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies), Birzeit University (Department of Political Science), University of Chicago (Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory), Stanford University (Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, Stanford University), AUC Affiliates, Georgetown University (Qatar) Center For International And Regional Studies (CIRS), The Global Academy (MESA Affiliated), Institute of Palestine Studies.

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The Arab Uprisings Resources 
A project of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI.org)

  • Home
  • RESOURCE PORTAL
  • Events
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  • About
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    • Roundtable on Archives, Revolution, Historical Thinking >
      • Historicizing Hope/lessness in Revolutionary Times by Rosie Bsheer
      • Archives as Repositories of Resistance: Syrian Uprisings Past and PresentNew Page
      • The Algerian Archive Between Two Revolutions
      • An Archive of Forgetting: Egypt, 2011-2021
      • “Secrets of Revolution”: Iraq and the Global 1919
      • Archive as Sensorium: 2021 in 1940 and 1940 in 2021
      • In Search of Iran’s Revolutionary Archives