A Break in the Future: Feeling Like an Activist After the Arab Uprisings

Investigates how Lebanese activists work through failure to keep the possibility of political change alive

A Break in the Future considers how activists keep hope alive and work toward future change when social movements fall apart and protests fail. Anthropologist Fuad Musallam investigates the endurance of political possibility in Beirut, Lebanon, between the Arab uprisings of 2010–11 and the Lebanese uprising of October 2019. Despite a regional collapse of political hope and a local inabi...