Mobilization, the leading scholarly journal in social movement studies, plans a special issue on Middle East Protest, to be published in December 2012 (Volume 17, Number 4). Original research articles from any discipline are welcome, with special emphasis on papers that use vernacular-language empirical material to speak to the field of social movement studies as a whole. Maximum length is 40 pages, not including figures and tables. Please submit papers to the editor of the special issue, Charles Kurzman , by January 1, 2012.