Critical voices in critical times: revolution without revolutionaries, an interview with Asef Bayat
(WorldNews Asia)

Asef Bayat talks about revolutions and revolutionary ideas, the place of ordinary people in social transformation, and what we can learn from the `Tahrir moment.` Asef Bayat. Picture courtesy of author. Some rights reserved. Asef Bayat´s recent book, ` Revolution without revolutionaries: making sense of the Arab Spring ` (Stanford University Press, 2017) explores the meaning of revolutionary struggle in the post-Cold War era, a `time when the very idea of revolution had dissipated.` In this interview, Heba Khalil presses Bayat on questions around the history of revolutions and revolutionary ideas, the place of ordinary people in social transformation, and what we can learn from the `Tahrir...