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Acknowledgments Preface 1. Introduction: Anticipating, Writing, and Rebelling in the Arab World 2. 'A way of making a space for ourselves where we can make the best of ourselves': Writing Egypt's 'Tahrir' 3. 'Here it's either silence or exile': The Stories of 'Rats' that Rebelled in Libya 4. 'We would meet them one day, and call them to account for their oppression': Post-2005 Prison Writings in Syria Bibliography Index