The people want: a radical exploration of the Arab uprising

On the Arab countries and "the Middle East and North Africa" (MENA)

On transliteration of Arabic

Introduction : uprisings and revolutions

1. Fettered development

The facts

Poverty, inequality, precarity

Informal sector and unemployment : the Bouazizi syndrome

Youth underemployment

Female underemployment

Graduate unemployment

Fetters on development

2. The peculiar modalities of capitalism in the Arab region

The problem of investment

Public and private investment

A specific variant of the capitalist mode of production

The genesis of the specific regional variant of capitalism : an overview

3. The regional political factors

The oil curse

From "Arab despotic exception" to "democracy promotion"

The Muslim Brothers, Washington, and the Saudis

The Muslim Brothers, Washington, and Qatar

Al Jazeera and the upheaval in the Arab mediascape

4. Actors and parameters of the revolution

Overdetermination and subjective conditions

The workers' movement and social struggles

New actors and new information and communications technologies

States and revolutions

5. A provisional balance sheet of the Arab uprising

Coups d'etat and revolutions

Provisional balance sheet no. 1 : Tunisia

Provisional balance sheet no. 2 : Egypt

Provisional balance sheet no. 3 : Yemen

Provisional balance sheet no. 4 : Bahrain

Provisional balance sheet no. 5 : Libya

Provisional balance sheet no. 6 : Syria

6. Co-opting the uprising

Washington and the Muslim Brothers, take two

NATO, Libya, and Syria

The "Islamic tsunami" and the difference between Khomeini and Morsi

[7]. Conclusion : the future of the Arab uprising

The difference between Erdogan and Ghannouchi

And the difference between Erdogan and Morsi

Conditions for a genuine solution.