Youth and Revolution in the Changing Middle East, 1908–2014 / / Haggai Erlich.

Though there is much discussion of the role of youth in recent upheavals in the Middle East, there are few serious analyses of just what that role has been. Haggai Erlich sheds important light on this topic, focusing on the activism of educated young people in creating revolutionary change and the p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
©2015
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (339 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 The Birth of “Youth” in the Middle East
  • 2 The Long Nineteenth Century: From Higher Education to National Identities
  • 3 The Generation of 1919 and the Spirit of the 1920s
  • 4 The Generation of Pan-Arabism
  • 5 The Education Revolution and the Return of Islam
  • 6 The Legacies of Islam in Today’s Universities
  • 7 The Long Road to the Arab Spring
  • 8 The Cases of Turkey and Iran
  • 9 Whither the Generation of 2011?
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Book