Middle Eastern Minorities and the Arab Spring

by K. Scott Parker
Middle Eastern Minorities and the Arab Spring
Author: K. Scott Parker
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781463206536
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Ethnic and linguistic minorities in the Middle East and the Arab Spring -- Re-considering minorities' position in the Middle East : the Kurdish case in Syria / Eva Savelsberg and Jordi Tejel -- The Amazigh in post-revolution Libya : a century of struggle / Todd M. Thompson and Youcef Bouandel -- The Armenian Christian minority in greater Syria -- And the Arab Spring / Darina Saliba Abi Chedid -- Religious minorities in the Middle East and the Arab Spring -- Adapting to shifting ground : the Alawites of the Northern Levant / Leon T. Goldsmith -- The Druze and the Arab Spring / Lubna Tarabey -- Syrian Ismailis and the Arab Spring : seasons of death and white carnations / Otared Haidar -- The Christians of Syria and the Arab Spring / Habib C. Malik -- Middle Eastern minorities and the Arab Spring -- The Christians of Lebanon and the Arab Spring / Michael Abi Semaan and Tony E. Nasrallah -- The easy enemy : the shia and sectarianism in the Arab states of the Gulf and Yemen during the Arab Spring / Jessie Moritz -- Other minorities in the Middle East and the Arab Spring -- Palestinians at home and in the diasporas and the Arab Spring / Bernard Sabella -- A spring abroad : exploring the case of Tunisian diasporas in Europe / Claire Demesmay, Sabine Russ-Sattar, Katrin Sold

Middle Eastern Minorities

by Ibrahim Zabad
Middle Eastern Minorities
Author: Ibrahim Zabad
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 131709672X
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This is a comprehensive survey of minorities in the Middle East with a special focus on the post Arab Spring era. Minority communities in the Middle East are the most susceptible to the turbulence engulfing the region; the majority may suffer physical violence and socioeconomic loss, but minorities could potentially vanish. Instead of ushering in democracy and inclusive politics, the revolutionary upheavals have prompted chaos and fear and reinforced the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism throughout the region. Zabad uses historical sources as well as first-hand interviews to vividly describe the current status of minorities in the Middle East, explaining attitudes towards the revolutionary upheavals as well as the various strategies they used to avail themselves of the opportunities presented and to confront the risks posed. The question of ethnic, sectarian and religious minorities is situated in the context of the broader history of the region in order to explain the underlying institutional and ideological factors that caused their predicament and problematized their relationship with the majority. The book providesa rich trove of information and insights generated from ten case studies that covered the Shī‘a in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Lebanon and Egypt, the Druze, the Alawites, Christians and Kurds in Syria, the Copts in Egypt, and the Zaydis in Yemen.

The Arab Winter

by Noah Feldman
The Arab Winter
Author: Noah Feldman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2021-08-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691227934
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The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter, Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was nevertheless not an unmitigated failure, much less an inevitable one. Rather, it was a noble, tragic series of events in which, for the first time in recent Middle Eastern history, Arabic-speaking peoples took free, collective political action as they sought to achieve self-determination.

The Return of the Past

by Uzi Rabi
The Return of the Past
Author: Uzi Rabi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2019-11-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 179360049X
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This book argues that the Arab Spring brought to the forefront numerous societal, political, and historical problems in the Middle East that scholars and practitioners throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century have continually glossed over or reduced in their analysis and analytical frameworks when studying the Middle East. These include the prevalent and persistent impact of Islam on political life, an impact of transnational and subnational identities, including sect, tribe, and regional identity, as well as the overuse of the state as the fundamental unit of analysis when studying the region. As a result, this book asserts that primordial identities including religion, sect, and tribe have, and will continue to have, a significant impact on the conduct of politics in the Middle East.

Minorities in the Middle East

by Mordechai Nisan
Minorities in the Middle East
Author: Mordechai Nisan
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2015-10-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786451335
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The struggle for independence by minorities in the Middle East (those people who are non-Arab or non-Muslim) is affecting the political climate around the world. War and terrorism are threatening the safety of many minority communities and repression of minorities still remains standard state policy in some countries. This updated and revised edition of the 1991 original provides a wealth of historical and political detail for all the indigenous peoples of the Middle East. Pressed to persist in a threatening environment, these minorities (Kurds, Berbers, Baluchi, Druzes, 'Alawites, Armenians, Assyrians, Maronites, Sudanese Christians, Jews, Egyptian Copts, and others) share similar experiences and have been known to cooperate for shared goals. Important events and new trends regarding the welfare of these groups are covered, and numerous oral histories add to the new edition. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Turkey’s Relations with the Middle East

by Hüseyin Işıksal
Turkey’s Relations with the Middle East
Author: Hüseyin Işıksal
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2017-09-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 331959897X
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This volume examines contemporary political relations between Turkey and the Middle East. In the light of the Arab Uprisings of 2011, the Syria Crisis, the escalation of regional terrorism and the military coup attempt in Turkey, it illustrates the dramatic fluctuations in Turkish foreign policy towards key Middle Eastern countries, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The contributors analyze Turkey’s deepening involvement in Middle Eastern regional affairs, also addressing issues such as terrorism, social and political movements and minority rights struggles. While these problems have traditionally been regarded as domestic matters, this book highlights their increasingly regional dimension and the implications for the foreign affairs of Turkey and countries in the Middle East.

Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East

by Paul S Rowe
Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East
Author: Paul S Rowe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 890
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317233786
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The Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East gathers a diverse team of international scholars, each of whom provides unique expertise into the status and prospects of minority populations in the region. The dramatic events of the past decade, from the Arab Spring protests to the rise of the Islamic state, have brought the status of these populations onto centre stage. The overturn of various long-term autocratic governments in states such as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, and the ongoing threat to government stability in Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon have all contributed to a new assertion of majoritarian politics amid demands for democratization and regime change. In the midst of the dramatic changes and latent armed conflict, minority populations have been targeted, marginalized, and victimized. Calls for social and political change have led many to contemplate the ways in which citizenship and governance may be changed to accommodate minorities – or indeed if such change is possible. At a time when the survival of minority populations and the utility of the label minority has been challenged, this handbook answers the following set of research questions.What are the unique challenges of minority populations in the Middle East? How do minority populations integrate into their host societies, both as a function of their own internal choices, and as a response to majoritarian consensus on their status? Finally, given their inherent challenges, and the vast, sweeping changes that have taken place in the region over the past decade, what is the future of these minority populations? What impact have minority populations had on their societies, and to what extent will they remain prominent actors in their respective settings? This handbook presents leading-edge research on a wide variety of religious, ethnic, and other minority populations. By reclaiming the notion of minorities in Middle Eastern settings, we seek to highlight the agency of minority communities in defining their past, present, and future.

Dispatches from the Arab Spring

by Paul Amar
Dispatches from the Arab Spring
Author: Paul Amar
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1452940614
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The Arab Spring unleashed forces of liberation and social justice that swept across North Africa and the Middle East with unprecedented speed, ferocity, and excitement. Although the future of the democratic uprisings against oppressive authoritarian regimes remains uncertain in many places, the revolutionary wave that started in Tunisia in December 2010 has transformed how the world sees Arab peoples and politics. Bringing together the knowledge of activists, scholars, journalists, and policy experts uniquely attuned to the pulse of the region, Dispatches from the Arab Spring offers an urgent and engaged analysis of a remarkable ongoing world-historical event that is widely misinterpreted in the West. Tracing the flows of protest, resistance, and counterrevolution in every one of the countries affected by this epochal change—from Morocco to Iraq and Syria to Sudan—the contributors provide ground-level reports and new ways of teaching about and understanding the Middle East in general, and contextualizing the social upheavals and political transitions that defined the Arab Spring in particular. Rejecting outdated and invalid (yet highly influential) paradigms to analyze the region—from depictions of the “Arab street” as a mindless, reactive mob to the belief that Arab culture was “unfit” for democratic politics—this book offers fresh insights into the region’s dynamics, drawing from social history, political geography, cultural creativity, and global power politics. Dispatches from the Arab Spring is an unparalleled introduction to the changing Middle East and offers the most comprehensive and accurate account to date of the uprisings that profoundly reshaped North Africa and the Middle East. Contributors: Sheila Carapico, U of Richmond; Nouri Gana, UCLA; Toufic Haddad; Adam Hanieh, SOAS/U of London; Toby C. Jones, Rutgers U; Anjali Kamat; Khalid Medani, McGill U; Merouan Mekouar; Maya Mikdashi, NYU; Paulo Gabriel Hilu Pinto, U Federal Fluminense, Brazil; Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College, CUNY; Ahmad Shokr; Susan Slyomovics, UCLA; Haifa Zangana.

Making the New Middle East

by Valerie J. Hoffman
Making the New Middle East
Author: Valerie J. Hoffman
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2019-02-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 081565457X
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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 from diverse disciplines, this volume offers critical perspectives on these changes, covering politics, religion, gender dynamics, human rights, media, literature, and music. What ultimately has changed in "the new Middle East"? Who are the actors pushing the direction of change? How are aspirations for change being expressed through media and the arts? With extensive analysis and thoughtful reflection, this book gives readers an in-depth portrayal of a modernizing Middle East.