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Middle Eastern minorities : the impact of the Arab Spring / Ibrahim Zabad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zabad, Ibrahim, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious minorities--Middle East.
- Religious minorities.
- Minorities--Middle East.
- Minorities.
- Middle East--Ethnic relations.
- Middle East.
- Ethnic relations.
- Arab Spring, 2010-.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 262 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- Summary:
- This is a comprehensive survey of minorities in the Middle East with a special focus on the post Arab Spring era and a rich trove of information and insights generated from the detailed case studies. It is situated in a broader research agenda about how Revolutions in general affect the status of minorities and for comparative purposes, it further explores general questions of how minorities fared in revolutionary times and in their aftermaths and under what conditions revolutions could lead to more minority-tolerant regimes.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the plight of minorities in the Middle East
- The fate of Christians in the Arab spring
- A. The Copts of Egypt
- B. Christians in Syria
- The Alawites
- A. The Alawites in Syria
- B. The Alawites in Lebanon
- The Shi'a in the Arab world
- A. The Shi'a in Saudi Arabia
- B. The Shi'a in Bahrain
- The Shi'a in Egypt
- The Shi'a in Lebanon
- The Zaydis in Yemen
- The Kurds in Syria
- Conclusion : the spring of broken mirrors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472474414
- 1472474414
- OCLC:
- 950894726
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