The event will include participation by Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio, the publisher of this book (with the original Spanish language title La primavera revisitada: reconfiguración del autoritarismo y recomposición del Islamismo) and a professor of Arab studies at the University of Alicante; Isaías Barreñada, a professor of International Relations at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Miguel Ángel Bastenier, a journalist for El País.  The event will be moderated by Karim Hauser, who is responsible for the Governance Area at Casa Árabe.

The Arab Spring, with its demands for dignity, social justice and freedoms, caused profound socio-political transformations in the Middle East and Maghreb regions. Five years later, we are now witnessing a redesigning of the traditional authoritarian model and a reshaping of Islamism. The outbreak of the Arab Spring aroused unprecedented interest by public opinion and the academic community. Despite this, there has not been appropriate follow-up on the profound socio-political transformations experienced in the Middle East and the Maghreb over these last five years. This work attempts to discuss the essential keys of interpretation to understand how the Arab transitions have progressed throughout this time period.