Artists, Writers and the Arab Spring

by Riad Ismat

The book aims to explore the foresight of prominent Middle Eastern authors and artists who anticipated the Arab Spring, which resulted in demands for change in the repressive and corrupted regimes. Eventually, it led to cracking down on the protests with excessive force, which caused tremendous human suffering, destruction, and also escalation of extreme insurgency. The author analyzes major literary and artistic works from Egypt, Syria and Tunisia,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030026671
• ISBN13: 9783030026677
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"