'Anticipating' the 2011 Arab Uprisings

Rita Sakr is Research Associate at the University of Kent, UK. She has published on Middle-Eastern studies and literatures and geographies of conflict. She is the author of Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study (2011); with Caroline Rooney, she co-edited The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut (2013).

• Acknowledgments Preface 1. Introduction: Anticipating, Writing, and Rebelling in the Arab World 2. 'A way of making a space for ourselves where we can make the best of ourselves': Writing Egypt's 'Tahrir' 3. 'Here it's either silence or exile': The Stories of 'Rats' that Rebelled in Libya 4. 'We would meet them one day, and call them to account for their oppression': Post-2005 Prison Writings in Syria Bibliography Index