​Book Title: Understanding Revolutions: Opening Acts in Tunisia.

Author: Azmi Bishara.

Date of publication: 2021.

Publisher: I.B. Tauris.

No. of pages: 328.

The first decade since the onset "Arab Spring" has occasioned tens of thousands of articles, books and studies; thousands of academic seminars and conferences; and countless hours of political meetings at regional and international levels, all dedicated to describing the events, analysing their repercussions and deliberating their ramifications. In effect, the Arab Spring has become a new field of research. Think tanks have been recruited for this very purpose. It has become required reading on university curricula and a focus for academic theses. It has engaged a constantly expanding international scholastic community whose roots date back to the waves of democratic transformation that began in Eastern Europe in the middle of the last century and Latin America before that.

Azmi Bishara's Understanding Revolutions fits squarely in this complex political and intellectual context. It is essential reading for any academic student of the Arab condition and, as such, can only be read within the context of that extensive critical tradition in which discussions and debates are informed by the entire legacy of literature on political revolution and reform throughout the world.