The second Arab awakening and the battle for pluralism

This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first Awakening in the nineteenth century and extending into future decades when--if the dream is realized...

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Main Author: Muasher, Marwan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CN Yale University Press [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Understanding the awakening
  • The first Arab awakening: a battle for independence
  • Redefining Arab moderation
  • Islamist movements: despots or democrats
  • Assessing what has changed
  • -- Part II: From awakening to pluralism
  • Education for pluralism
  • The second Arab awakening and the Arab-Israeli conflict: peace now or never
  • Third forces and the battle for pluralism