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About Asef Bayat

Asef Bayat is professor of sociology and middle-east studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His books include Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (Stanford University Press, 2007); Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2010); and (with Linda Herrera) Being Young and Muslim: Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Articles by Asef Bayat

Tuesday 8th February

Egypt, and the post-Islamist middle east

Asef Bayat, 8 February 2011
The portrayal of Egypt’s uprising in terms of its potential capture by Islamists is doubly misleading, says Asef Bayat: for this misses both the true character of the people’s movement and the transformation of the Arab world’s religious politics.
Wednesday 24th March

Iran: torch of fire, politics of fun

Asef Bayat, 24 March 2010
The doctrinal contempt of Islamist regimes for popular festivals such as the Iranian nowrooz (new year) extends to suspicion of every expression of spontaneous life. The result is to conjure the very rituals of resistance they fear, says Asef Bayat. 
Tuesday 7th July

Iran: a green wave for life and liberty

Asef Bayat, 7 July 2009
The Tehran regime's brute power cannot forever deter an insurgent tide of protest
Friday 6th March

Democracy and the Muslim world: the “post-Islamist” turn

Asef Bayat, 6 March 2009
An old argument over the compatibility of Islam and democracy is being transformed
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