Jeffrey G. Karam is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lebanese American University (LAU), Lebanon, and a Research Associate at Harvard University's Middle East Initiative in the U.S. He is the editor of The Middle East in 1958: Reimagining A Revolutionary Year (I.B Tauris, 2020) and his work has been published in both academic and public outlets, including Intelligence and National Security, the Arab Studies Journal, The Washington Post, H-Diplo and ISSF, the Daily Star Lebanon, Megaphone and Jadaliyya.Rima Majed is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon. Her work has appeared in many academic and media platforms including Social Forces; Mobilization; Middle East Law and Governance; Global Dialogue; Idafat: The Arab Journal of Sociology; Al Jumhuriya; CNN; Middle East Eyes, OpenDemocracy, and Al Jazeera English.

Foreword - Lara Bitar

1. Framing the October Uprising in Lebanon: An Unfolding Revolutionary Situation - Jeffrey G. Karam and Rima Majed

Part 1 - Setting the Stage: Situating the Uprising within the Foundations of the Lebanese Polity, Regional Considerations, and Global Consequences

2. Reckoning with the Past: Selected Scenes from the Modern History of Lebanon - Sana Tannoury-Karam

3. Lebanon's Post-War Political Economy: From Reconstruction to Collapse - Mohamad Zbeeb

4. Wondering About the Social - Samer Frangie

5. Law in Times of Revolution:A Double-Edged Sword of Repression and Resistance - Lama Karamé

6. Filthy Flows of Power: A Political Ecology of Disasters in Lebanon - Roland Riachi

7. 'Sectarian Neoliberalism' and the 2019 Uprisings in Lebanon and Iraq - Rima Majed

8. The Shadow Guardians of the Status-Quo: The Lebanon Uprising of 2019 and the International Politics of Counter-Revolution - Jeffrey G. Karam

Part 2 - Faces of the Revolutionary Uprising: Tactics, Repression, and Alternative Voices and Movements

9. How Urban Space Shapes Collective Action: The Lebanon Uprising of 2019 - Mona Harb

10. Alternative Media and Digital Platforms: Empowerment Tools for Civic Engagement - Claudia Kozman

11. Lebanon's Alternative Labor Movement: In Between Collapse and Revolutionary Imaginaries - Nadim El Kak

12. Appearing as Women - Sara Mourad

13. Clashing with the Patriarchy: The Promise of Potential as Politics -- Nay el Rahi

14. The Lebanese Uprising through the Eyes of Loyalists - Mortada Al-Amine

15. The Power and Limits of Blocking Roads: How the October Uprising Disrupted Lebanon - Nizar Hassan

16. The Different Faces of Counterrevolution and Obstacles for Change in Lebanon - Joseph Daher

17. The 'Lebanese' Uprising: Revisions from Refugees and Migrants - Moné Makkawi

18. Lebanese Diaspora, October 17 Uprising, and Political Transformation in Lebanon - Paul Tabar and Yara El-Zakka

Part 3 - Experiencing the Revolution (Thawra): Testimonies and Reflections from the Ground

19. The Cycle of Loss: Between Trial and Sabotage - Hani Adada

20. "A Nation for All": The Lebanon Uprising and Disability Rights in Lebanon - Grace Khawam

21. A Feminist Revolution Par Excellence - Myriam Sfeir

22. Student Activism and the October Uprising: We Felt Once More That Everything Is Anew - Samir Skayni

23. Road blocking, Mass Strike, and the Qantari Collective - Rawane Nassif

24. Night of the Banks: Uprising Against the Rule of Banks -- Mohammad Bzeih

25. The Struggle for the Bisri Valley - Roland Nassour

26. Reconstructing the Uprising in Tripoli: The Revolution that Never Left the Square - Tamim Abdo

27. The Mobilization in Baalbeck-Hermel: On the Incomplete Uprising of the First Days and the Dissidents that Carried on Despite Everything - Lamia Sahili

28. Experiencing the Uprising in the Chouf and Aley Region - Alaa Al Sayegh

29. Reflections from Two Revolutions: From the Ignition of the Tunisian Revolt to the Lebanon Uprising -- Olfa Saadaoui

30. From Syria to Lebanon: We Felt Again that Everything is New -- Saad Choeb

Afterword - Leyla Dakhli