{"id":15841,"date":"2011-07-28T13:42:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T19:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15841"},"modified":"2011-07-28T13:42:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T19:42:58","slug":"food-farming-and-freedom-sowing-the-arab-spring-by-rami-zurayk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15841","title":{"rendered":"Food, Farming, and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring by Rami Zurayk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Food, Farming, and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring<br \/>\nby Rami Zurayk<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The wave of anti-government protests that swept through the Arab world from December 2010 on is transforming politics and society in the Middle East.\u00a0 The protests came as a surprise to many observers&#8211; but not to <strong>Rami Zurayk<\/strong>, an experienced Lebanese agronomist and social activist who had been charting the collapse of traditional agricultural livelihoods in the Middle East since the late 1980s.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.justworldbooks.com\/ramy-zurayk-table-of-contents\">View Full Table of Contents<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.justworldbooks.com\/food-farming-freedom-praise\">Read Praise for <em>Food, Farming and Freedom<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food, Farming, and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring by Rami Zurayk The wave of anti-government protests that swept through the Arab world from December 2010 on is transforming politics and society in the Middle East.\u00a0 The protests came as a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15841\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-47v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15844,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15841\/revisions\/15844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}