Asef Bayat
Asef Bayat is professor of sociology and Middle East studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His books include “Street Politics: Poor People’s Movements in Iran” (1997), “Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East” (2013), “Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring” (2017) and “Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring” (2021).
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Juergen Habermas Contradicts His Own Ideas When It Comes to Gaza
"It is admirable that you and your country’s political-intellectual class are adamant about sustaining the memory of that historic horror so that similar horrors will not befall the Jews. But your formulation of, and fixation on, German exceptionalism leaves practically no room for conversation about Israel’s policies and Palestinian rights."
A New Iran Has Been Born — A Global Iran
This is a movement to reclaim life. People feel that a normal life has been denied to them by a regime of elderly clerical men. These men, they feel, seem so separated from the people, and yet they have colonized their lives.