The Rebel Felix Lang Malcolm Théoleyre Terrorists Revolution Arab Spring Translation Rebel Islamism 1848 Who is the rebel in the Middle East and North Africa? Translating the 'rebel' in the Arab spring context bears lexical and semantic difficulties, but, most of all, it requires to guard oneself from western liberal bias. Discussing different notions of 'the rebel' and related Arabic terms such as thāʾir and mutamarrid, this article introduces META issue #6 on 'The Rebel'. Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg 2016 2016-05-24 2018-01-31 Text article urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2016-157-51299 eng 2714728-9 6 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/article/download/5129/4987 10.17192/meta.2016.6.5129 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2016/157/5129