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

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, t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:The Modern Muslim World
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Physical Description:1 online resource (353 p.)
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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