The coming revolution : struggle for freedom in the Middle East / Walid Phares.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phares, Walid, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Middle East.

Democracy.

Politics and government.

Middle East.

Jihad.

Islam and politics--Middle East.

Islam and politics.

Middle East--Politics and government--1979-.

Democracy--Africa, North.

Islam and politics--Africa, North.

North Africa.

Africa, North--Politics and government--21st century.

Africa, North.

Physical Description:

xv, 383 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Threshold Editions, 2010.

Contents:

A revolution against the Caliphate?

How the West missed the story and may miss it again

The missed century : how the democratic revolution failed during the twentieth century

The 1900s : a dark tunnel for dissidents

Lights from the window : post-9/11 Western interventions

Democracy sabotaged

Freedom and its obstructors

The Taliban's nightmare : women against their oppressors

Mesopotamia rises

The Cedars Revolution : the battle over free Lebanon

Syria's reformers : opposition against the Baath

The Green Revolution : Iran's youth, women, and minorities

Hell in Sudan : genocide against Africans and the end of the last apartheid

The greater Maghreb : the most violent jihadists and their nemesis

The Copts and liberals : Egypt's rising democrats

Arabia's liberals : how the peninsula produces jihadism and its antidote

Islamists versus Muslim democrats : the war for the soul of the Muslim world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-366) and index.

ISBN:

9781439178379 :

1439178372

OCLC:

617550836

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