The coming revolution : struggle for freedom in the Middle East /
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| Author / Creator: | Phares, Walid, 1957- |
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| Edition: | 1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed. |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Threshold Editions, 2010. |
| Description: | xv, 383 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8360638 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: A Revolution against the Caliphate?
- Introduction: How the West Missed the Story and May Miss It Again
- 1. The Missed Century: How the Democratic Revolution Failed During the Twentieth Century
- 2. The 1990s: A Dark Tunnel for Dissidents
- 3. Lights from the Window: Post-9/11 Western Interventions
- 4. Democracy Sabotaged
- 5. Freedom and Its Obstructors
- 6. The Taliban's Nightmare: Women against Their Oppressors
- 7. Mesopotamia Rises
- 8. The Cedars Revolution: The Battle over Free Lebanon
- 9. Syria's Reformers: Opposition against the Baath
- 10. The Green Revolution: Iran's Youth, Women, and Minorities
- 11. Hell in Sudan: Genocide against Africans and the End of the Last Apartheid
- 12. The Greater Maghreb: The Most Violent Jihadists and Their Nemesis
- 13. The Copts and Liberals: Egypt's Rising Democrats
- 14. Arabia's Liberals: How the Peninsula Produces Jihadism and Its Antidote
- 15. Islamists versus Muslim Democrats: The War for the Soul of the Muslim World
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index
