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In 2011 thousands of Arab youth took to the streets revealing the genesis of a new generation sparked by the desire for civil liberties and participatory democracy.
Arab Youth explores the antecedents of the upheavals and anticipates alternative venues of resistance that marginalized youth—from Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine to Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Iran—can mobilize to realize their emancipatory expectations.
Samir Khalaf is a professor of sociology at the American University of Beirut. He has held academic positions at Princeton, Harvard, MIT, and New York University.
Roseanne Saad Khalaf is associate professor of English and creative writing at the American University of Beirut.
Roseanne Saad Khalaf: Roseanne Saad Khalaf is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the American University of Beirut.
Samir Khalaf and Roseanne Saad Khalaf
Part 1: Youth as a Social Category 33
Youth as a Social Category and as a Social Process 35
Johanna Wyn
Reclaiming Youthfulness 47
Asef Bayat
The Negotiation of ?Waithood:
The Political Economy of Delayed Marriage in Egypt 67
Diane Singerman
The Demographic Youth Bulge and Social Rupture 79
Youssef Courbage
Part 2: Negotiating Identity in Times of Risk 89
Social Learning and Community Participation:
Youth at Risk in Two Marginalized Urban Neighborhoods in Amman, Jordan 91
Curtis N. Rhodes, Jr., Haytham A. Mihyar, and Ghada Abu El-Rous
Saudi Youth:
Initiative and Inertia 112
Mai Yamani
Between Silences and Screams:
The Lebanese Postmemory Experience 127
Craig Larkin
Part 3: Representation and Self-Perception 147
The Politics of Fun in the Islamic Republic of Iran:
Re-creation of Recreation 149
Pardis Mahdavi
Idealistic and Indignant Young Lebanese 162
Roseanne Saad Khalaf
Discourse on the National Identity of Lebanese Upper Class Youth 176
Nicolien Kegels
Part 4: Militancy and Street Violence 195
Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in Palestinian Intifada:
A Cultural Politics of Violence 197
Julie Peteet
Revenge of the Wretched:
Islam and Violence in the Bab al Tabaneh Neighborhood of Tripoli 220
Mohammad Abi Samra
Neighborhood Violence among Youth Gangs in the Southern Suburbs
of Beirut (Chiah) 236
Fidel Sbeity
Part 5: Voluntarism and Civil Society 261
Uniforms and Salutes:
Fascism and Youth Politics in Syria and Lebanon under French Rule 263
Jennifer Dueck
Youth Networks, Space, and Political Mobilization:
Lebanon’s Independence Intifada 277
Christian Gahre
Part 6: Popular Culture and Music 301
Sanctioned Pleasures:
Youth Negotiations of Leisure Sites and Morality in al-Dahiya 303
Lara Deeb and Mona Harb
European Muslim Youth:
Towards a Cool Islam? 319
Miriam Gazzah
Music Consumption and the Navigation of Identities:
Transnational Moroccan Youth in Britain 337
Carolyn Landau
Scratch the Past – this is OUR Soundtrack:
Hip-Hop in Lebanon 359
Angie Nassar
About the Contributors 387
Bibliography 391
Acknowledgments 409
Index 411