Fawwaz Traboulsi wrote this book at a moment when the Arab uprisings had moved from their first surge into a phase of repression, militarization, and fragmentation. That is the force of its paradoxical title: revolutions were real, but the forces capable of turning popular energy into an organized transformative project were too weak to decide the struggle. The book reads the Arab Spring through neoliberal restructuring, the security state, political Islam, and counterrevolution, treating it as a structural crisis rather than a passing event.
Revolutions without Revolutionaries: The Fates of the Arab Spring
ثورات بلا ثوار: مآلات الربيع العربي