Are Knudsen is senior researcher at the Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway and holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Bergen. He is scientific coordinator for CMI's research collaboration with the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy (Muwatin), and is the author of Violence and Belonging: Land, Love and Lethal Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan (2010). Basem Ezbidi teaches at the Department of Political Science at Birzeit University. He is the author of The Palestinian Political Culture (2003) and Hamas and Governance: Is Hamas Getting into the System or Rebelling Against It? (2010).

• Foreword: Arab Revolts in Post-Islamist Times. Asef BayatChapter 1: Introduction. Are KnudsenChapter 2: Islamism in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring. Rikke Hostrup Haugbolle and Francesco CavatortaChapter 3: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Ready for Revolution? Issandr El AmraniChapter 4: Yemen's Islamists: Between Government and Opposition in the Post-Saleh Order. Vincent DuracChapter 5: The Secular Uprising and the Possible Resurgence of Post-Islamism. Lina Khatib and Rob StewartChapter 6: Democracy as a Minor Necessity in Hamas's Narrative. Karim KnioChapter 7: The Melding of Islam and Secularism: the Headscarf Ban in Turkey. Yildiz AtasoyPostscript. Basem Ezbidi

This welcome volume grapples with the groundswell of protests that reverberated across the Middle East beginning in late 2010, and which will continue to disorient and challenge protagonists for years to come. The authors grapple particularly with the responses of Islamist oppositional groups, and also contemplate the prospects for a post-Islamist future. While the answers are necessarily tentative, Popular Protest in the Middle East offers thoughtful, even original analyses of a variety of important cases. including Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. Are Knusden's introduction is incisive and valuable in itself, and the contemplative foreword by Asef Bayat is a bonus for readers. Read this book and think through cases with the highly capabale authors. Augustus Richard Norton, Professor, Boston University and Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. This book presents an excellent and much-needed [analysis] for the study of the dynamic phenomenon of Islamism in the wake of the Arab Spring...This volume guides and alerts us to the determination of the new Arab street in Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, as well as beyond, and the transient impact they have and can make on power within the state. This book will undoubtedly serve as an essential guide not just in terms of explaining what has passed but what will come to bear in terms of our understanding of this now turbulent region. Knudsen and Ezbidi help readers come to grips with important Islamist and post-Islamist challenges. Beverley Milton-Edwards, Professor of Politics, Queen's University, Belfast