Arab Spring, Libyan Winter

"Vijay Prashad has combined history, culture, and politics into a superbly researched and very clear work on the Arab Spring. . . . He has achieved a considerable feat, with a book that deserves to become essential reading, a canonical account of a world-historic chain of events." ? The Hindu Mass action overthrew Tunisia's Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. The revolutionary wave spread to the far corners of the Arab world, from Morocco to Bahrain. It seemed as if all the authoritarian sta...