Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “Dogs of Wall Street, Let Us Alone”: Graffiti in Cold War Baghdad, 1953

Chapter 3 When Pundits Fail: “We Are All Khalid Said” and the Challenge of Democratizing Egypt

Chapter 4 Civil Society and Political Change in Contemporary Egypt

Chapter 5 Social Media and the Arab Spring in Bahrain: From Mobilization to Confrontation

Chapter 6 The Middle Eastern Gender Gap: The State of Female Political Participation Before, During and After the ‘Arab Spring’

Chapter 7 The Arab Spring Through a Libyan Prism: Contagion, Cleavages and Adverse Transition

Chapter 8 Re-imagining the ‘State’ in Syria During the First Year of the Uprising (2011–2012)

Chapter 9 Rooted in History: The Politics of Middle Eastern and North African Soccer

Chapter 10 Civil State in the Post–Arab Spring Countries: Tunisia, Egypt and Libya