TY - BOOK AU - Stephan, Maria J. TI - Civilian jihad : nonviolent struggle, democratization, and governance in the Middle East / edited by Maria J. Stephan SN - 9780230621411 U1 - DS 63.1 .S74 2009 CY - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. KW - Government, Resistance to – Middle East KW - Government, Resistance to – Middle East – Case studies KW - Nonviolence – Middle East KW - Nonviolence – Middle East – Case studies KW - Middle East – Politics and government – 1945- KW - Middle East – Politics and government – 1945- – Case studies N1 - “The Muslim Pashtun movement of the North-West frontier of India, 1930-1934”—(p. 107); Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: Introduction; Maria J. Stephan (p. 1-14)—[01] Theory and dynamics nonviolent action; Hardy Merriman (p. 17-29)—[02] Questions and controversies about nonviolent political struggle in the middle east : Arab Objections to General Strategy of nonviolent political struggle; Ralph E. Crow and Philip Grant (p. 31-42)—[03] No silence, no violence : a post-Islamist trajectory; Asef Bayat (p. 43-52)—[04] Humor and resistance in the Arab world and greater Middle East; Khalid Kishtainy (p. 53-63)—[05] Islamists and nonviolent action; Shadi Hamid (p. 65-78)—[06] 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 (p. 79-89)—[07] External actors and nonviolent struggles in the middle East; Stephen Zunes and Saad Eddin Ibrahim (p. 91-104)—[08] The Muslim Pashtun movement of the North-West frontier of India, 1930-1934; Mohammad Raqib (p. 107-118)—[09] noncooperation in the Golan heights : a case of nonviolent resistance; R. Scott Kennedy (p. 119-129)—[10] Palestinian civil resistance against Israeli military occupation; Mary Elizabeth King (p. 131-155)—[11] The nonviolent struggle for self-determination in Western Sahara; Salka Barca and Stephen Zunes (p. 157-168)—[12] Lebanon’s independence Intifada : how an unarmed insurrection expelled Syrian forces; Rudy Jaafar and Maria J. Stephan (p. 169-182)—[13] Iran’s Islamic revolution and nonviolent struggle; Mohsen Sazegara and Maria J. Stephan (p. 185-204)—[14] Enough is not enough : achievements and shortcomings of Kefaya, the Egyptian movement for change; Sherif Mansour (p. 205-218)—[15] The orange movement of Kuwait : civic pressure transforms a political system; Hamad Albloshi and Faisal Alfahad (p. 219-232)—[16] Hizbullah : delimiting the boundaries of nonviolent resistance?; Rola el-Husseini (p. 235-252)—[17] Winning the mainstream : Arba Imahot, the four mothers movement in Israel; Tamar Hermann (p. 253-264)—[18] Popular resistance against corruption in Turkey and Egypt; Shaazka Beyerle and Arwa Hassan (p. 265-279)—[19] The Iranian women’s movement : repression versus nonviolent resolve; Fariba Davoudi Mohajer, Roya Toloui, and Shaazka Beyerle (p. 281-299)—[20] Conclusion; Maria J. Stephan (p. 301-316) ER -