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"Renowned blogger and Middle East expert Juan Cole takes us &#8220;inside the youth movements in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, showing us how activists used technology and social media to amplify their message and connect with like-minded citizens&#8221; (The New York Times) in this &#8220;rousing study of the Arab Spring&#8221; (Publishers Weekly, starred review).For three decades, Cole has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. In The New Arabs he has written &#8220;an elegant, carefully delineated synthesis of the complicated, intertwined facets of the Arab uprisings,&#8221; (Kirkus Reviews), illuminating the role of today&#8217;s Arab youth&#8212;who they are, what they want, and how they will affect world politics. Not all big groups of teenagers and twenty-somethings necessarily produce historical movements centered on their identity as youth, with a generational set of organizations, symbols, and demands rooted at least partially in the distinctive problems of people their age. The Arab Millennials did. And, in a provocative, big-picture argument about the future of the Arab world, The New Arabs shows just how they did it. &#8220;Engaging, powerful, and comprehensive&#8230;The book feels as indispensable to scholars as it is insightful for a more casual reader&#8221; (Los Angeles Times)."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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