The Cases: Popular uprisings
Forty-one cases open the chapters of the book, from the story of Talut and Goliath to the race for artificial intelligence. Each has its chapter and its lesson. In the book a story is a way into understanding, not a conclusive proof of it.
By eraAllAntiquity and the QuranThe Islamic middle centuriesEarly modern to 19th centuryThe 20th centuryThe 21st century
By arenaAllThe battlefieldLiberation from occupationPower and statesPopular uprisingsJustice and witnessKnowledge and mediaCivil societyIdeas and values
10 cases
- 6
The French Revolution
When a nation explodes upon itself
- 9
Bouazizi
When a single image sets a continent alight
- 10
The Egyptian revolution
When the internet generation defies the toughest security state
- 13
Euromaidan
When a people refuses to have its fate chosen without it
- 15
The Syrian revolution
From the walls of Daraa to the fall of Damascus
- 19
South Korea, 1987
When one funeral moves an entire nation
- 20
The Carnation Revolution
When a flower stops a rifle
- 26
The Sudanese revolution
When bread raises the banner of freedom
- 28
The Bolshevik revolution
When hunger topples the crown
- 29
The Iranian revolution
A deferred contention that began in 1953