Palestinian Youth Activism in the Internet Age

Albana Dwonch was most recently Visiting Scholar at the Ibrahim Abu LughodInternational Studies Institute, Birzeit University, Palestine. She has been activelyengaged in the NGO sector in the Middle East as Youth Development practitioner.She received her PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Interdisciplinary studies from theUniversity of Washington, USA.

• PrefaceChapter One: IntroductionChapter Two: New Social Movements in the Internet AgeChapter Three: The Rise and Fall of the Arab SpringChapter Four: Gaza’s Forgotten RevolutionChapter Five: At a Crossroads in the West Bank - In Search of a Lost StrategyChapter Six: Between Old Demands and New Protests: Stop The Prawer Movement. A Case Study of Palestinian Youth activism in Israel, 2011-2013Chapter Seven: Concluding RemarksBibliography

It takes deep cultural knowledge to understand how people use technology. Dwonch has immersed herself in Palestinian communities using technology to express themselves politically and to understand their political positions. Most important, her time spent in these communities lets her explain how the role of technology in political culture varies across the generations of Palestinians trapped in a long term struggle for individual identity and collective security.