Indhold: Contention and constitutionalisation in the global realm : assessing the uprisings in West Asia and North Africa and their impact on international politics / Jan Wilkens. Reconceptualizing resistance and reform in the Middle East / Mishana Hosseinioun. Kuwaiti Arab Spring? : the role of transnational factors in Kuwait's contentious politics / Anastasia Nosova. The Iraqi independence movement : a case of transgressive contention (1918-1920) / Aula Hariri. Contentious politics and the Syrian crisis : internationalisation and militarization of the conflict / Jasmine Gani. Foreign engagement in contentious politics : Europe and the 2011 uprisings in Libya / Inez von Weitershausen. Foreign actors : a double-edged sword hanging over contentious politics in the Middle East / Eugenio Lilli. Transnationalized domestic contention : explaining the varying levels of Western solidarity given to Kurds and Palestinians / David Zarnett. The emergence of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement / Suzanne Morrison. Contentious Copts : the emergence, success and decline of Maspero Youth Movement in Egypt / Magdalena C. Delgado. From progress to order : the 'Kurdish openings' and the limits to contentious politics in Turkey / Oğuzhan Göksel. Contentious politics and bottom-up mobilisation in revolutionary Egypt : the case of Egyptian football supporters in Cairo / Suzan Gibril. A Berber Spring : the breakthrough of Amazigh minorities in the uprisings' aftermath / Cleo Jay. New modes of collective actions : the reemergence of anarchism in Egypt / Laura Galián. Muslim groups in the Gezi Park protests : identity politics and contentious politics under authoritarian neoliberalism / Ayşe Dursun. Claiming "marginal space" : the contentious politics of "citizenship" among Palestinian feminists in Israel / Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe. Characteristics of prolonged social movements : the case of Gezi Park protests / Bırce Altıok-Karşıyaka and Kerem Yıldırım. Reassembling the political : placing contentious politics in Jordan / Pascal Debruyne and Christopher Parker. Contentious economics in occupied Palestine / Ala'a Tartir. The bottom-up mobilization of Lebanese society against neoliberal institutions : the case of opposition against Solidere's reconstruction of downtown Beirut / Hadi Makarem. "Iftar" in McDonald's' : the everyday encroachment of Cairo's subaltern cosmopolitans / Harry Pettit