A nalyses of the spread of the Arab uprisings have been dominated by three comparative angles. Single-country studies have emerged as the most common framework, often put to use in a second comparative approach of examining variation across cases. For example, studies explore which states have had major uprisings and which have not, which uprisings were peaceful and which were violent, and so o...

Robot uprisings are a serious and important problem faced by human society. Unfortunately, no automated approach for detecting and preventing robot uprisings has previously been devised. In this paper, we describe such an approach using a combination of model checking and crowdsourcing.

The protests that swept the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are expected to have influenced two key civic attitudes fundamental to well-functioning democracies: trust and tolerance. However, systematic comparative assessments of the general patterns and particularities in this region are rare. This contribution theorizes the uprisings’ impact and presents new society-level measurements...

Atheism has stirred up controversy in the Arabic-speaking world since 2011 uprisings, when atheists there began appearing public. What role does Arabic mass media play modern politics of minorities such as atheists, given heated debates that it hosts on atheism? This question is important because perceptions frames influence behavior politicians and electorate—and, a result, laws affect minorit...

if we study the contemporary palestinian poetry of the last century we will find that the theme of nationhood and motherland dominates it. one reason is the fact that during this period palestine has been through such events that has ignited a sense of patriotism, a wish to defend of the motherland and the arabic origin of the palestinian people. since the balfour declaration, the endeavour to ...

This paper examines the role of adverse climatic conditions on political protest and institutional development. In particular, it assesses the role of adverse climate on the eve of the French Revolution on peasant uprisings in 1789. Historians have argued that crop failure in 1788 and cold weather in the winter of 1788/89 led to peasant revolts in various parts of France. To test this hypothesi...

Terrifying encounters with uprisings and epidemics across Europe were one result of my recent examination of the prints of the German painter and printmaker Alfred Rethel (1816– 1859). All the prints I considered have one symbol in common: the allegorical fi gure of Death. As a means of representing dangerous historical events, formidable and mysterious, this diabolical being would frequently d...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of social networking sites’ (SNSs) characteristics on Egyptians’ perception and attitude towards the 25/30 uprisings, also known as the “Arab Spring”. Data were obtained from 422 Egyptian university students using SNS by means of questionnaire. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was conducted to test the research hypotheses. The study results i...