Making the new Middle East : politics, culture, and human rights / edited by Valerie J. Hoffman.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2019.
  • ©2019
Description
xi, 487 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Contemporary issues in the Middle East [More in this series]
    Summary note
    This book examines politics and social dynamics in the Middle East today from diverse disciplinary perspectives, including religion, economics, gender, human rights, literature, media and music.
    Notes
    Some papers were originally presented at a conference titled "The New Middle East : Social and Political Change in the Twenty-First Century," sponsored by the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on October 18-20, 2012--Acknowledgments.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Part One. Religion, politics, and society in the Middle East
    • Religion and politics in the Arab Spring and its aftermath / Valerie J. Hoffman
    • The Islamic Republic and the politics of the new Middle East / Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
    • The military, the Islamists, and the battle over Egypt's constitution / Feisal G. Mohamed
    • Old and new battles for Turkish national identity / Joshua D. Hendrick
    • Security challenges in Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, and Algeria in the wake of the Arab uprisings / Ramazan Erdağ
    • Part Two. Human rights in the Middle East
    • Islam, non-Muslim minorities, and human rights in the Middle East / Valerie J. Hoffman
    • Regime ruptures and sectarian eruptions in post-Mubarak Egypt / Mariz Tadros
    • The Palestinians : justice denied / Cheryl A. Rubenberg
    • Part Three. Gender dynamics : what has changed?
    • Gender norms in the Muslim Middle East / Valerie J. Hoffman
    • The politics of gender equality in Turkey / Gül Aldıkaçtı Marshall
    • Between a rock and a hard place : the "Arab Spring," women, and lessons from Iran / Haideh Moghissi
    • Part Four. Media and cultural expressions
    • State-sponsored media, cultural production, and information wars : the case of Iran / Niki Akhavan
    • The power of corruption and the corruption of power : the Arabic historical novel in Morocco (and elsewhere) / Roger Allen
    • From Sayed Darwish to MC Sadat : sonic cartographies of the Egyptian uprising / Ted Swedenburg.
    ISBN
    • 9780815636069 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0815636067 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780815636120 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0815636121 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2018053056
    OCLC
    1082875437
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