Anna M. Agathangelou teaches at York University, Toronto. Her book entitled Global Political Economy of Sex: Desire, Violence and Insecurity (2004) was published by Palgrave/Macmillan; her most recent book, Transforming World Politics: From Empire to Multiple Worlds (2009), co-authored with L.H.M. Ling, was published by Routledge.

Nevzat Soguk is Professor and Deputy Director of the Global Cities Research Institute at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Formerly, he was Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His most recent book, Globalization and Islamism: Beyond Fundamentalism (2010), was published by Rowman and Littlefield.

The unprecedented wave of revolt ushered in by the Arab uprisings and revolts has already had a profoundly transformative effect on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with broader implications on the transformation of global politics and world order. This forum opens up space to continue the conversation about what has become a powerful, unstoppable force in the streets of Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Syria, Libya and Yemen.

This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

1. Introduction - Rocking the Kasbah: Insurrectional Politics, the "Arab Streets", and Global Revolution in the 21st Century 2. An African Reflection on Tahrir Square 3. Looking Beyond Spring for the Season: An African Perspective on the World Order after the Arab Revolt 4. The Global Street: Making the Political 5. Making Anew an Arab Regional Order? On Poetry, Sex, and Revolution 6. Uprisings in 'Arab Streets', Revolutions in 'Arab Minds'! A Provocation 7. Stratagems and Spoils in US Policy in the Middle East 8. Unrest and Change: Dispatches from the Frontline of a Class War in Egypt 9. Tehran's Delayed Spring? 10. Model, Event, Context: Globalization, Arab Social Movements, and the Modeling of Global Order 11. The Winter of the Arab Spring in the Gulf Monarchies 12. Radical Changes in the Muslim World: Turkey, Iran, Egypt 13. Authoritarian Learning and Authoritarian Resilience: Regime Responses to the 'Arab Awakening' 14. Globalizations Forum on Middle East Protests: Commentary 15. Libya's 'Black' Market Diplomacies: Opacity and Entanglement in the Face of Hope and Horror 16. Revolutionary Humor 17. Role of the New Media in the Arab Spring 18. Talk About a Revolution: Social Media and the MENA Uprisings