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The myth of Middle East exceptionalism : unfinished social movements by Mojtaba Mahdavi; Peyman Vahabzadeh; Abigail B. Bakan; Yasmeen Abu-Laban; Navid Pourmokhtari; Juan Cole; Mariam Georgis; Tariq Ali; Bessma Momani; Melissa Finn; Michael Frishkopf; Guilnard Moufarrej; George Mürer; Carolyn Ramzy; Jonathan Shannon; Nermeen Youssef; Iman Mersal; Ramin Jahanbegloo; Roozbeh Safshekan Esfahani; Paul Rowe; amina wadud; Poyraz Kolluoglu; Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani; Nermin Allam; Mark Muhannad Ayyash; Khaled Abou El Fadl is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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More than a decade after the birth of contemporary social movements in the Middle East and North Africa scholars are asking what these movements have achieved and how we should evaluate their lasting legacies. The quiet encroachments of MENA counterrevolutionary forces in the post-Arab Spring era have contributed to the revival of an outdated Orientalist discourse of Middle East exceptionalism, implying that the region’s culture is exceptionally immune to democratic movements, values, and institutions. This volume, inspired by critical post-colonial/decolonial studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives of social movement theories, gender studies, Islamic studies, and critical race theory, challenges and demystifies the myth of “MENA Exceptionalism”. Composted of three sections, the book first places MENA in the larger global context and sheds light on the impact of geopolitics on the current crises, showing how a postcolonial critique better explains the crisis of democratic social movements and the resilience of authoritarianism. The second section focuses on the unfinished projects of contemporary MENA social movements and their quest for freedom, social justice, and human digni
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- Author
- Mojtaba Mahdavi; Peyman Vahabzadeh; Abigail B. Bakan; Yasmeen Abu-Laban; Navid Pourmokhtari; Juan Cole; Mariam Georgis; Tariq Ali; Bessma Momani; Melissa Finn; Michael Frishkopf; Guilnard Moufarrej; George Mürer; Carolyn Ramzy; Jonathan Shannon; Nermeen Youssef; Iman Mersal; Ramin Jahanbegloo; Roozbeh Safshekan Esfahani; Paul Rowe; amina wadud; Poyraz Kolluoglu; Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani; Nermin Allam; Mark Muhannad Ayyash; Khaled Abou El Fadl
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780815637929
- Category
- nonfiction
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