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)
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Published in: HomeEgypt, and the post-Islamist middle eastThe portrayal of Egypt’s uprising in terms of its potential capture by Islamists is doubly misleading, says Asef...
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Published in: HomeIran: torch of fire, politics of fun
The doctrinal contempt of Islamist regimes for popular festivals such as the Iranian nowrooz (new year) extends to...
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