Protests and Generations: Legacies and Emergences in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean

Mark Muhannad Ayyash is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Peace Studies Initiative at Mount Royal University. His recent publications examine examine Palestinian youth movements, theorizing violence, and the work of Edward Said.Ratiba Hadj-Moussa is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at York University. Her publications explore the new forms of the political, the margins, media and public sphere in North Africa, and laicité in France and Quebec.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Conceptualizing Generations and ProtestsMark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa Part 1: Forms of Protest and the Production of Generations1 Palestinian Youth in Israel: A New Generational Style of Activism?Mohammad Massalha, Ilana Kaufman and Gal Levy2 From Student to General Struggle: The Protests against the Neoliberal Reforms in Higher Education in Contemporary ItalyLorenzo Cini3 Lawyers Mobilizing in the Tunisian Uprising: A Matter of ‘generations’?Éric GobePart 2: Genealogies of Generational Formations4 2003: A Turning Point in the Formation of Syrian YouthMatthieu Rey5 Together, but Divided: Trajectories of a Generation of Egyptian Political Activists (from 2005 to the Revolution)Chaymaa Hassabo6 The Gezi Protests: The Making of the Next Left Generation in TurkeyGökbörü Sarp TanyildizPart 3: Memory, History and the “New Generation”7 ‘Freedom is a Daily Practice’: The Palestinian Youth Movement and Jil OsloSunaina Maira8 The Double Presence of Southern Algerians: Space, Generation and UnemploymentRatiba Hadj-Moussa9 “We are not heiresses”: Generational Memory, Heritage and Inheritance in Contemporary Italian FeminismAndrea Hajek10 Echoes of Ricardo Mella: Reading Twenty-First Century Youth Protest Movements through the Lens of an Early Twentieth-Century AnarchistStephen Luis Vilaseca