https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Carthage-s-Troubles https://booksandideas.net/Carthage-s-Troubles 2025-03-25T07:00:00Z text/html en Pierre Robert Baduel International Arab world Tunisia dictatorship Cairn.info <p>How should we characterize the regime of Tunisian President Kais Saied since his 2021 power grab? To get a sense of what is happening “inside the country,” an edited volume provides an informed and engaged interpretation of the situation.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Arab-Spring-Ten-Years-After https://booksandideas.net/The-Arab-Spring-Ten-Years-After 2023-02-14T08:05:00Z text/html en Khalid Lyamlahy International Arab world rebellion Cairn.info <p>What remains of the Arab Spring? By gathering diverse and heterogeneous material related to the uprisings and analyzing circulation and transformation dynamics at a transnational level, this edited volume uses archives to rethink both the memory and contemporary significance of the revolutions.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Logic-of-Revolutions https://booksandideas.net/The-Logic-of-Revolutions 2017-01-19T08:00:00Z text/html en Giedre Sabaseviciute Politics International History democracy revolution Arab world French Revolution Institut français <p>With the ‘Arab Springs', the question of revolution was raised afresh. Taking a comparative approach, H. Bozarslan and G. Delemestre analyse the link between revolution and the democratic process, focusing on the role played by intellectuals in the revolutionary dynamic.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Syria-the-Strategy-of-Destruction https://booksandideas.net/Syria-the-Strategy-of-Destruction 2016-06-06T07:00:00Z text/html en Leïla Vignal International Syria revolution violence Arab world war Florence Gould Foundation <p>For the past five years, the population of Syria has been undergoing severe repression at the hands of a regime implementing a policy of mass destruction, forcing over half of all Syrians to leave their homes, and seriously threatening the future of a country that has had the strength drained out of it.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Syria-The-Barbarian-State https://booksandideas.net/Syria-The-Barbarian-State 2016-02-04T08:00:00Z text/html en Leïla Vignal Syria revolution Arab world Institut français <p>The Syrian revolution is orphan because the repressive, authoritarian and increasingly ferocious regime of Bashar al-Assad is still in place. According to Ziad Majed, the lack of response from the international community is largely responsible for this state of affairs.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Benefits-of-Anachronism https://booksandideas.net/The-Benefits-of-Anachronism 2013-02-21T19:51:31Z text/html en Peter Burke Islam History Arab world Europe <p>Rewriting the history of Muslims in modern Europe while addressing current Islamophobia: historian Lucette Valensi has taken up a challenge that would have sent most of her colleagues running. But rather than eschewing the risk of anachronism, she chooses to face “the sin of sins” – and succeeds remarkably.</p>