Civilian Jihad

PART I OVERVIEW Theory and Dynamics of Nonviolent Action; Hardy Merriman Questions and Controversies about Nonviolent Struggle in the Middle East; Ralph E. Crow and Philip Grant No Silence, No Violence: A Post-Islamist Trajectory; Asef Bayat Humor and Resistance in the Arab World and Greater Middle East; Khalid Kishtainy Islamist and Nonviolent Action; Shadi Hamid Free at Last! Free at Last! Allahu Akbar, We Are Free at Last! Parallels between Modern Arab and Islamic Activism and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement; Rami G. Khouri External Actors and Nonviolent Struggles in the Middle East; Stephen Zunes and Saad Eddin Ibrahim PART II CASE STUDIES: Challenging Foreign Occupation and Domination The Muslim Pashtun Movement of the North-West Frontier of India, 1930-1934; Mohammad Raqib Noncooperation in the Golan Heights: A Case of Nonviolent Resistance; R. Scott Kennedy Palestinian Popular Resistance against Israeli Military Occupation; Mary E. King The Nonviolent Struggle for Self-Determination in the Western Sahara; Salka Barca and Stephen Zunes Lebanon's Independence Intifada: How Unarmed Insurrection Expelled Syrian Forces; Rudy Jaafar and Maria J. Stephan PART II CASE STUDIES: Challenging Domestic Tyranny and Promoting Democratic Reform Iran's Islamic Revolution and Nonviolent Struggle; Mohsen Sazegara and Maria Stephan Kefaya: The Egyptian Movement for Change; Sherif Mansour Kuwaiti 2005 'Orange Movement'; Faisal Alfahad and Hamad Albloshi PART II CASE STUDIES: Movements for Social and Political Rights Hizbullah: Delimiting the Boundaries of Nonviolent Resistance?; Rola el-Husseini Realistic Nonviolence: Arba Imahot, The Four Mothers Movement in Israel; Tamar Hermann Popular Resistance against Corruption in Turkey and Egypt; Shaazka Beyerle and Arwa Hassan The Iranian Women's Movement: Repression versus Nonviolent Resolve; Fariba Davoudi Mohajer and Roya Tolouee, Shaazkaa Beyerle Conclusion: Civil Resistance-Wave of the Future in the Middle East?

MARIA J. STEPHAN is Senior Director, Policy and Research at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, USA.