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The Silent Revolution the Arab Spring and the Gulf States

How immune is the Gulf region to the changes that have engulfed the Arab world since 2011? This volume responds to this question by examining the impact of the Arab Spring on Gulf regimes and societies and contributing to debates on political participation and citizenship; sectarianism, gender and i...

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Other Authors: Seikaly, May (Editor), Mattar, Khawla (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Germany Gerlach Press 2014
Subjects:
Arab Spring, 2010-
Democracy > Persian Gulf States
Revolutions > Persian Gulf States
Persian Gulf States > Politics and government > 21st century
Persian Gulf States > Social conditions
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Table of Contents:
  • Democratic challenge in the Gulf: how immune are the GCC countries?
  • The impact of the Arab Spring on the Arab Gulf states
  • Notions of sovereignty in the Arab world: an examination of state and citizenship in the aftermath of the Arab Spring
  • Women and the Arab Spring in Saudi Arabia: a nascent social movement?
  • The local and the transnational in the Arab uprisings: the protests in Saudi Arabia's eastern province
  • The late unpleasantness: the Arab Spring in Oman
  • A spring of concentric circles: overlapping identities in Kuwait and Bahrain and their effects on the Arab Spring
  • Bahrain's uprising in cyberspace
  • The Arab Spring through Gulf satellite television stations: reporting or controlling?
  • And then came the uprising!

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