Middle Eastern Minorities and the Arab Spring : : Identity and Community in the Twenty-First Century / / ed. by Tony Emile Nasrallah, Kenneth Scott Parker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Abi Chedid, Darina Saliba,; Bouandel, Youcef,; Demesmay, Claire,; Goldsmith, Leon T.,; Haidar, Otared,; Malik, Habib C.,; Moritz, Jessie,; Nasrallah, T. E.,; Nasrallah, Tony E.,; Parker, K.S.,; Russ-Sattar, Sabine,; Sabella, Bernard,; Savelsberg, Eva,; Semaan, Abi,; Sold, Katrin,; Tarabey, Lubna,; Tejel, Jordi,; Thompson, Todd M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Nasrallah, Tony Emile,; Parker, Kenneth Scott,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: The Modern Muslim World
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 p.)

Middle Eastern Minorities and the Arab Spring: Identity and Community in the Twenty-First Century examines eleven minority groups in the early years of the so-called Arab Spring. Wide-ranging in scope, minorities of diverse religious and ethno-linguistic backgrounds are included from North Africa, the Levant, and the Arabian Peninsula. Each has experienced the Arab Spring differently and uniquely depending upon their context. Of particular concern to the international team of scholars involved in this volume, is the interaction and reaction of minorities to the protest movements across the Arab World that called for greater democratic rights and end to respective autocratic regimes. While some minorities participated in the Arab Spring, others were wary of instability and the unintended effects of regime change - notably the rise of violent Islamism. The full effects of the Arab Spring will not be known for years to come, but for the minorities of the Middle East, the immediate future seems certainly tenuous at best.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: ETHNIC AND LINGUISTIC MINORITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE ARAB SPRING -- Chapter 1. Re-Considering Minorities' Position in the Middle East: The Kurdish Case in Syria -- Chapter 2. The Amazigh in post-Revolution Libya: A Century of Struggle -- Chapter 3. The Armenian Christian Minority in Greater Syria and the Arab Spring -- PART II: RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE ARAB SPRING -- Chapter 4. Adapting to Shifting Ground: The Alawites of the Northern Levant -- Chapter 5. The Druze and the Arab Spring -- Chapter 6. Syrian Ismailis and the Arab Spring: Seasons of Death and White Carnations -- Chapter 7. The Christians of Syria and the Arab Spring -- Chapter 8. The Christians of Lebanon and the Arab Spring -- Chapter 9. The Easy Enemy: The Shia and Sectarianism in the Arab States of the Gulf and Yemen during the Arab Spring -- PART III: OTHER MINORITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE ARAB SPRING -- Chapter 10. Palestinians at Home and in the Diasporas and the Arab Spring -- Chapter 11. A Spring Abroad: Exploring the Case of Tunisian Diasporas in Europe -- CONCLUSION -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX