Palestinian Youth Activism in the Internet Age: Online and Offline Social Networks After the Arab Spring - Paperback

by Albana S. Dwonch (Author), Dina Matar (Editor), Adam Hanieh (Editor)

Since the Arab uprisings of 2011, Palestinian youth movements have formed unofficial and leaderless networks of political activism, using the internet to mobilise and bring together three generations of Palestinian activists. This book focuses on three key case studies that have marked a turning point in the development of youth-organised and grassroots Palestinian politics: the 15 March movement in Gaza, the Palestinians for Dignity movement in the West Bank, and the Prawer movement of young Palestinians in Israel. Drawing on extensive fieldwork composed of interviews with leading Palestinian activists in the West Bank and Gaza and detailed analysis of social media patterns, this book offers a fresh reading of Palestinian youth and their central online and offline role in popular protests against both Israeli and Palestinian power structures.

Author Biography

Albana Dwonch was most recently Visiting Scholar at the Ibrahim Abu Lughod
International Studies Institute, Birzeit University, Palestine. She has been actively
engaged in the NGO sector in the Middle East as Youth Development practitioner.
She received her PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Interdisciplinary studies from the
University of Washington, USA.