Table of Contents

"Introduction: Taking Stock, Setting the Agenda" by Dina El Khawaga, Andrew Findell-Aghnatios, Sarah Anne Rennick

Theorizing the Limits of Knowledge as a Public Good

• "Sites and Channels of Public Policy Knowledge in the Arab Region: The Forest, the Trees, and the Poison Ivy" by Dina El Khawaga

Meso-scale Initiatives to Emancipatory Knowledge

• "Expanding Access to Humanities in Egypt: Alternative Pathways to Knowledge" by Mai Amer
• "Moving Knowledge to and from the Margins" by Dina Wahba
• "Speaking the Tahrir Truth to Apparatuses of Knowledge: Subalternity, the January revolution’s event, and the battle over Knowledge" by Mario Mikhail

International Actors in Local Policymaking: Mechanisms, Modalities, and Obstacles

• "The Challenges of Knowledge Sharing: How Impact-Oriented Communications Can Lead to Transformative Policymaking" by Ola Sidani
• "Knowledge Production through Evaluations of Development Programs in Jordan: Challenges of Realizing Local Relevance and Value" by Dima M. Toukan

Reclaiming Knowledge as a Non-Commodified Public Good

• "Utopias and Limits of Alternative and Open (Social) Science in Lebanon: The Experience of the Centre For Social Sciences Research and Action" by Marie-Noëlle Abiyaghi and Léa Yammine
• "Social Sciences, the Humanities, and the Causes of Human Rights, Democracy, and Social Justice: A Case Study of the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights" by Alaa Talibi
• "How The Public Becomes the Client: Transitions for Architecture and Planning in Egypt after 2011 and the Case of 10 Tooba" by Yahia Shawkat and Ahmed Zaazaa