CONTENTS
Foreword:
Understanding Recent Social and Political Developments in the Middle East and North Africa: A Personal Odyssey
Peter Sluglett
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
1. TUNISIA
Tunisian Revolution: Gaining Our Freedom and Dignity
Abes Hamid
The Death of My Cousin and the Birth of a New Tunisia
Ahlem Yazidi
Tunisians Breaking the Silence
Marwen Jemili
Revolution from the Outside
Noureddine Cherif
The Torments of the Revolution
Marwa Hermassi
Tunisia’s Hard Times and Its Best Times
Yesmina Khedhir
The Smell of Jasmine: The Tunisian Revolution from the Outside
Nada Maalmi
2. EGYPT
The Moment the Barrier of Fear Broke Down
Adel Abdel Ghafar
Funny Beginnings and Happy Endings
Mona Prince
The Egyptian Revolution: A Personal Account
Jordan Fitzgerald Smith
It Is Just … the Beginning
Sara Hany
Welcome to Utopia!
Amor Eletrebi
My Egyptian Revolution
Maha Hindawy
The Bullets Are Still in My Leg
Al-Mutazbellah Ahmad Ali al-Abd
It Happened in Egypt!
Aly Hassan Amin Rabea
Diary to Democracy (
Inshallah
[God Willing])
Claudia Wiens
Telling My Secret
Kholoud Said Amer
The Fall and Rise of an Egyptian Uprising
Samaa Gamie
The Spirit of Tahrir Square: “Like Going to Mecca on a Pilgrimage”
Al-Sayed Abdulmughni
3. LIBYA
My Mission in the Libyan Revolution
Mohammed Zarrug
Fighting Qaddafi: More Determination Than Weapons
Khairi Altarhuni
The Dark Night on the Tripoli Front
Abdulmonem Allieby
Fighting for Freedom
Ehab Ibrahim al-Khinjari
From School to the Battlefield
Yusef Mohamed Benruwin
Living Through the Libyan Uprising
Gay Emmaya Tongali
Benghazi, My Love
Adel el-Taguri
My Work in Revolutionary Libya
Annabelle Veso Faller
The Days of My Life
Ezedin Bosedra Abdelkafi
Blood for My Country
Aisha A. Nasef
4. YEMEN
Witnessing the Yemeni Revolution
Mahmoud Sagheer al-Fasly
Yemeni Observations
Joshua Zettel
The Yemeni Dream
Reemy Mojahed
The Emerging New Yemen
Ameen Jaber Sailaan
Killing the Rose but Not the Spring
Abduljalil Yousef
The Aroma of Freedom and the Smell of Blood
Abdullah Sufian Modhesh
The Tent and the Revolution
Mohammed al-Omari
The Challenges of Our Yemeni Revolution
Sarah Jamal Ali Ahmed
5. SYRIA
Syrian Women’s Revolution: The New Women of Quraish
Rustum Mahmoud
The Road from Damascus to al-Qaboun
Odai Alzoubi
Freedom and Nothing Else
Hani al-Furati
A Story from Homs
Mohammed Kadalah
The First Steps Toward Democracy
Bishr Said
A Small Community of Great Syrian Revolutionaries
Amer Mahdi Doko
From the Damascus Spring to the Arab Spring: A Nonpersonal Story
Radwan Ziadeh
Before and After the Arab Spring: Kurdish Strife for Freedom
Walat Khabat
State Security and My Country
Hasan Khalil
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