Ibrahim Natil is a Lecturer at Dublin City University, Ireland.

Vanessa Malila is a researcher at the Humanitarian Academy for Development. She was previously a Research Follow in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, South Africa.

Youcef Sai is an independent researcher with a PhD in Education from Trinity College Dublin.

1. Introduction Ibrahim Natil 2. Introducing barriers to effective civil society organisations Ibrahim Natil 3. Africa CSOs civic spaces: Bridging the information gap through social media Vanessa Malila4. The Changing Civil Society and the Hybrid Regime in Iran Mohsen Moheimany and Alireza Najafinejad 5. Reinvention of nationalism and the moral panic against Foreign Aid in Egypt Ahmed El Assal and Amr Marzouk6. Civil Society in the Gaza Strip: Qatari Humanitarian Aid Ola Alkahlout [...]'s rights-based approach between contextual appropriateness and political transformation in neo-patrimonial in Cambodia Rikio Kimura 8. Civil Society and Left-wing Governments in Latin America: The Limits of Influence Chris O'Connell 9. Shifting Landscape in Morocco: Civil Society Activism in Post 2011 Uprisings Mohammed Yachoulti 10. A Case Study of Two Irish Faith-Based CSOs Youcef Sai 11. Conclusion: Implications and Future Direction Ibrahim Natil