Overview

The Arab Spring- the Arab World’s largest mass mobilization protests since its 1950s-1960s national liberation movements – has swept most of the Arab Middle East and North Africa since 2011. How can we understand the eruption and the development of such large-scale mass protests and mobilization movement/s in the Arab world? What trajectories and transitions did the Arab Spring take in the various Arab countries and why? What role did political art and digital mass media play in this mobilization?

This online course/seminar will analyze the Arab Spring in light of the questions of the Arab world’s politics which had contributed to its making and transitions. Also, the course will be focused on the agency of the political art of the Arab Spring, such as graffiti, murals, and digital street art. It will analyze such arts in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Yemen, and Libya.