Civilian jihad : nonviolent struggle, democratization, and governance in the Middle East / edited by Maria J. Stephan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Maria J. Stephan -- Pt. I. Overview -- 1. Theory and Dynamics of Nonviolent Action / Hardy Merriman -- 2. Questions and Controversies about Nonviolent Political Struggle in the Middle East / Ralph E. Crow and Philip Grant -- 3. No Silence, No Violence: A Post-Islamist Trajectory / Asef Bayat -- 4. Humor and Resistance in the Arab World and Greater Middle East / Khalid Kishtainy -- 5. Islamists and Nonviolent Action / Shadi Hamid -- 6. Free at Last! Free at Last! Allahu Akbar, We Are Free at Last! Parallels between Modern Arab and Islamic Activism and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement / Rami G. Khouri -- 7. External Actors and Nonviolent Struggles in the Middle East / Stephen Zunes and Saad Eddin Ibrahim -- Pt. II. Case Studies -- (a). Challenging Foreign Occupation and Fighting for Self-Determination -- 8. Muslim Pashtun Movement of the North-West Frontier of India, 1930-1934 / Mohammad Raqib -- 9. Noncooperation in the Golan Heights: A Case of Nonviolent Resistance / R. Scott Kennedy -- 10. Palestinian Civil Resistance against Israeli Military Occupation / Mary Elizabeth King -- 11. Nonviolent Struggle for Self-determination in Western Sahara / Salka Barca and Stephen Zunes -- 12. Lebanon's Independence Intifada: How an Unarmed Insurrection Expelled Syrian Forces / Rudy Jaafar and Maria J. Stephan -- (b). Challenging Domestic Tyranny and Promoting Democratic Reform -- 13. Iran's Islamic Revolution and Nonviolent Struggle / Mohsen Sazegara and Maria J. Stephan -- 14. Enough Is Not Enough: Achievements and Shortcomings of Kefaya, the Egyptian Movement for Change / Sheriff Mansour -- 15. Orange Movement of Kuwait: Civic Pressure Transforms a Political System / Hamad Albloshi and Faisal Alfahad -- (c). Movements for Social and Political Rights -- 16. Hizbullah: Delimiting the Boundaries of Nonviolent Resistance? / Rola el-Husseini -- 17. Winning the Mainstream: Arba Imahot, the Four Mothers Movement in Israel / Tamar Hermann -- 18. Popular Resistance against Corruption in Turkey and Egypt / Shaazka Beyerle and Arwa Hassan -- 19. Iranian Women's Movement: Repression Versus Nonviolent Resolve / Fariba Davoudi Mohajer, Roya Toloui and Shaazka Beyerle -- Conclusion 301 / Maria J. Stephan.