Brownlee opens her book New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-Uprising Syria, which is based on her PhD thesis, by tracing the new era of popular mobilization in the Middle East. The work's narrative goes up to June 2009 in Iran, when the results of the elections angered the Iranian people and led to the Green Movement protests that disappeared quickly after facing a massive repression campaign by the Iranian regime. Almost two years later, similar movements took place, first in Tunisia, then spreading to many Arab states under the name Arab Spring (3–4). In light of this, the regional and tribal divisions between eastern and. western Libyans, the sectarian divisions, and accumulated tensions between minority and majority in Syria and Bahrain meant that several of these uprisings led to civil war and a sectarian strife. The author calls these Arab Spring uprisings “revolutions,” including the one...
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