The Arab Political Science Network (APSN) organized a virtual roundtable during the 2021 Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association (APSA) that centred on the chapters of the forthcoming edited volume “The Lebanon Uprising of 2019: Voices from the Revolution”.

The roundtable participants included Rima Majed, from the American University of Beirut (AUB), and Jeffery Karam, from the Lebanese American University, the co-editors of the volume, and Roland Riachi, one of its contributors and also affiliated with AUB. The discussants were Melani Cammett, from Harvard University; Laryssa Chomiak, from Centre d'Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT), and Jillian Schwedler, from Hunter College, and the panel was chaired by Lama Mourad of Carleton University.

The volume aims to place the revolutionary experience of Lebanon within regional and global processes including the so-called Arab Spring, and makes an important contribution to the study of uprisings in neoliberal contexts. Dr. Mourad described the volume as “not just an encapsulation or a documentation of the uprising, but a volume that is itself part and parcel of the revolutionary moment and thinking around it in Lebanon.”