The Arab Uprising By Marc Lynch

JeBriesha Craddock

SPSY 201

A Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George

Washington University, author Marc Lynch pens a work he titled The Arab Uprising:

The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East to dispel thoughts and

misconceptions that unrest in the Middle East, particularly in the areas of political

and social mobilizations, are in fact a new phenomenon. Utilizing his wealth of

experience within the Middle East and topics pertaining to it, Lynch choose to

analyze what lead to the downfall of four of the Middle East’s regimes in Tunisia,

Egypt, Yemen, and Syria along with the unfolding of events leading up to the “Arab

Spring,” along with the results and aftermath of aforementioned events. The “Arab

He speaks on the importance of the “new Arab

Public sphere” which lead to the creation of what are referred to as “hashtag

protests.” The latter becomes an issue of importance when speaking on the “new

Arab Public sphere” itself, or the online community of bloggers, activisits, and

tweeters who create a quasi-united front of Arabs that create a realm of

understanding and unity between separate, but united Arab countries. “Hashtag

protests” emerge as a by-product as this form of revolution is meant to keep track of

the day that protests occur, although they did not necessarily have the greatest of

impacts on an urge for regime change in any of the Arab nations mentioned in

Lynch’s work. Partially, Lynch attempts to utilize bits of this information to

characterize the makings and beings of a “revolution” or “uprising” and at the very

least, the many varied components of such events. As mentioned before,