Asef Bayat

Iranian-born sociologist known for work on social movements, urban politics, youth, and everyday forms of resistance; author of studies such as Street Politics and Life as Politics.

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  1. 1. Revolution Without Revolutionaries

    Making Sense of the Arab Spring

    Argues that the Arab uprisings were widespread, largely leaderless popular mobilizations driven by everyday grievances and practices rather than classical revolutionary vanguards; the book examines how ordinary people—through occupation of public space, informal networks, and new communications—contested authoritarian orders, producing uneven, unpredictable outcomes that transformed political life without yielding stable revolutionary leadership or coherent ideological programs, and offers a framework for understanding both the immediate successes and the longer-term setbacks of the Arab Spring.

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