Making the New Middle East
Politics, Culture, and Human Rights
$106.47
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
27 February 2019
Summary
Demands for freedom, justice, and dignity have animated protests and revolutions across the Middle East in recent years, from the Iranian Green Movement and the Arab Spring uprisings to Turkey’s March for Justice and the ongoing struggle in Palestine. Although expectations raised by the Arab Spring were largely disappointed and protests that toppled entrenched rulers unleashed vicious counterrevolutionary forces, there is no doubt that the landscape of the Middle East has changed. Drawing fro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780815636120 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0815636121 |
| Author: | Valerie J. Hoffman |
| Publisher: | Syracuse University Press |
| Imprint: | Syracuse University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 27 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 705g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 231mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East |
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Critics Review
These essays contribute substantively to our understanding of this fraught region and will encourage classroom discussion of complex human rights, cultural, and political concerns.
An important and relatively distinctive dimension of the overall argument in this volume is its inclusive nature, going beyond the usual approach of many recent publications on the contemporary Middle East, by its specific inclusion of analyses focused on human rights, on changing dynamics of gender relations, and on the new media culture.
About The Author
Valerie J. Hoffman
Valerie J. Hoffman is professor and head of the Department of Religion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Essentials of Ibadi Islam.
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