This pioneering elucidation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East In this landmark book  Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen  are driven by a “Delayed Defiance” – a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment that signifies no less than the end of Postcolonialism