Minority Politics In The Middle East And North Africa

Author : Will Kymlicka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317205502
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minority Politics in the Middle East and North Africa written by Will Kymlicka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Projects of democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa have said little about the place of minorities and minority rights in their vision of reform, implying that these issues are best deferred to some indefinite future. While many people describe the Arab Spring as a ‘battle for pluralism’, there is a reluctance to discuss what this pluralism might actually mean for the political claims of minorities, for fear of triggering divisive conflicts and undemocratic tendencies. Is there an alternative to this fearful deferral of minority politics? Can we imagine ‘transformative minority politics’ – that is, a form of minority politics that strengthens democratic reform in the region, and that helps deepen a culture of human rights and democratic citizenship? This volume explores whether this is indeed a realistic prospect in the Middle East and North Africa, examining cases that include the Amazigh in North Africa, the Copts in Egypt, the Kurds in Iraq, the Palestinians in Israel, the ‘minoritarian’ regimes in Syria and Bahrain, and various ethnic minorities in Iran. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Author : Ronald De McLaurin
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Role of Minority Groups in the Middle East written by Ronald De McLaurin and published by Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Tessler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303019843X
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Minorities in Non-Secular Middle Eastern and North African States written by Mark Tessler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and compares the circumstances and lived experiences of religious minorities in Tunisia, Morocco, and Israel in the 1970s, countries where the identity and mission of the state are strongly and explicitly tied to the religion of the majority. The politics and identity of Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel are, therefore, shaped to a substantial degree by their status as religious minorities in non-secular states. This collection, based on in-depth fieldwork carried out during an important moment in the history of each community, and of the region, considers the nature and implications of each group’s response to its circumstances. It focuses on both the community and individual levels of analysis and draws, in part, on original public opinion surveys. It also compares the three communities in order to offer generalizable insights about ways the identity, political culture, and institutional character of a minority group are shaped by the broader political environment in which it resides. The project will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of Middle Eastern and North African studies, Judaic studies, Islamic Studies, minority group politics, and international relations and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Author : Ofra Bengio
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555876470
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minorities and the State in the Arab World written by Ofra Bengio and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a comprehensive discussion of minorities and ethnic politics in eight Arab countries. Focusing on the strategic political chaos made by minorities, majorities and regimes in power, the authors point to probable future developments in majority-minority relations in the region.

Author : Paolo Maggiolini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030543994
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minorities and State-Building in the Middle East written by Paolo Maggiolini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers fresh insights to enhance and diversify our understanding of the modern history of the state and societies in today’s Jordan, while also providing examples of why and how scholars can challenge the static and discursively government-minded approaches to minorities and minoritisation – especially the traditional emphasis on demographic balances. Despite its small size and initial appearance of homogeneity, Jordan provides an excellent case of a dynamic, relational, historically contingent and fluid approach to ethnic, political and religious minorities in the context of the imposition of a modern state system on complex and varied traditional societies. The editors and contributors present dynamic and relational perspectives on the status of and historical processes involved in the creation and absorption of minority groups within Jordan.

Author : Moha Ennaji
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317813626
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa written by Moha Ennaji and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the connections between multiculturalism, minorities, citizenship, and democracy in North Africa, this book argues that multiculturalism in this region– and in the Arab world at large – has reached a significant level in terms of scale and importance. In the rest of the world, there has been a trend – albeit a contested one – toward a greater recognition of minority rights. The Arab world however, particularly North Africa, seems to be an exception to this trend, as Arab states continue to promote highly unitary and homogenizing ideas of nationhood and state unity, whilst discouraging, or even forbidding, minority political mobilization. The central theoretical premise of this book is that North Africa is a multicultural region, where culture is inherently linked to politics, religion, gender, and society, and a place where democracy is gradually taking root despite many political and economic hurdles. Addressing the lacuna in literature on this issue, this book opens new avenues of thought and research on diversity, linking policy based on cultural difference to democratic culture and to social justice. Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa will be of use to students and researchers with an interest in Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Political Science more broadly.

Author : Milton J. Esman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745751
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity, Pluralism, and the State in the Middle East written by Milton J. Esman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and innovative discussion of the role that ethnicity plays in contemporary Middle Eastern affairs, Ethnicity, Pluralism, and the State in the Middle East is the first systematic exploration of this important dimension in the social life, statecraft, politics, and international relations in the region.

Author : Mordechai Nisan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786451335
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minorities in the Middle East written by Mordechai Nisan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Anthony Gorman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474430635
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Press in the Middle East and North Africa, 1850-1950 written by Anthony Gorman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to look critically at digital technologies and the role they play within queer lives in contemporary India

Author : David Long
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Government And Politics Of The Middle East And North Africa, Fourth Edition written by David Long and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2002-04-08 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid social, economic, and political change is endemic to the Middle East and is often more revolutionary than evolutionary in nature. In many ways, the entire political landscape of the Middle East has been transformed in the past decade in the realm of both international relations and domestic politics: The collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the cold war, and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait have all had a profound effect on relations among states within the region and between those states and countries outside the region.In this revised edition, Long and Reich provide comprehensive and up-to-date analyses of many critical contemporary events and issues. The contributors explain how Desert Storm isolated Iraq and brought Syria back into the mainstream of Arab politics, contributing to the revival of the Arab-Israeli peace process. They also show how the return of a Labor government in Israel has allowed the peace process to go forward. Evaluating the economic costs of the Kuwait war and the continuing oil glut, the authors find that resulting changes in the domestic economies of the oil-producing states have created additional pressures for social and political change. The most profound change in government and politics, however, is the rise of Islam as the idiom of political discourse among moderates as well as extremists.