The Arab awakening: Islam and the new Middle East. By Tariq Ramadan. Publisher: London : Penguin Group, Published: 2012, pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-846-14560-3.

Tariq Ramadan is a prominent scholar and a grandson of the late Hassan al-Banna who founded Muslim Brotherhood. He holds a PhD from the University of Geneva for his thesis “Nietzsche as a Historian of Philosophy” and has written more than a dozen of books and enjoys speaking for Islam in general and European Islam in particular. The book under review is a refinement of the collection of his articles relating to uprising in the Arab world especially North Africa. It contains four chapters together with appendixes of his previous articles on the same issue.