Thawra fii Times Square

Arab New York ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 145-168
Author(s):  
Emily Regan Wills
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
National Origin ◽  
Times Square ◽  
American Values ◽  
The Arab Spring

This chapter examines how the attempted and successful revolutions of the “Arab Spring” altered political mobilization within Arab communities in New York. New activist and protest groups arose to support the Egyptian and Yemeni revolutions in particular, while a new rise in national-origin based community organizing also occurred. These new organizations and activists relied on a diverse mix of political frames, emphasizing both their links to other Arab communities and calls for justice, and their connections to American values like freedom and democracy.

Tailoring the Arab Spring to American values and interests: A framing analysis of U.S. elite newspapers’ opinion pieces

2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae Sik Ha
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
American Values ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The U.S

This study investigated the portrayal of the Arab Spring by conducting a qualitative framing analysis of editorials and columns in two elite U.S. newspapers: The New York Times and The Washington Post. Most opinion writers on the Arab Spring in the The New York Times and The Washington Post were either journalists from the news organizations themselves or ex-officials and scholars at various U.S. institutions. Thus, these papers reflected the viewpoints of political elites in portraying the Arab Spring. They largely advocated principles that accentuated the liberalism paradigm of international relations, such as democracy, international cooperation, and economic independence. These papers placed great emphasis on the possible impact of the Arab Spring on the U.S.’s continued deterrence of radical Islam and terrorism, but essentially none on the possible impact these events might have on the U.S.’s continued dependence on Middle East oil. The opinion journalism of U.S. elite papers is largely determined by journalists, ex-government officials, and scholars within the ʻmedia organizationalʼ and ʻsocial institutionalʼ levels, as well as American ideologies and interests on the ʻsocial systemʼ level.

Arab American Women and the Arab Spring

Women Rising ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 363-366
Author(s):  
Emily Regan Wills
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Arab American ◽  
American Women ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Arab American Women ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The Revolution

By means of an interview with a young female Yemeni American activist, Summer Nasser, Emily Regan Wills highlights how the diaspora communities influenced the politics of the Arab Spring. Summer Nasser is a leader in the Yemeni American Coalition for Change, a New York–based organization supporting peaceful revolution and the end of the Saleh regime in Yemen. In this interview, Summer explains how she understands the dynamics of gender and age in the revolution in Yemen and the transnational nature of this movement.

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