The coming revolution : struggle for freedom in the Middle East

The coming revolution : struggle for freedom in the Middle East /

After the 9/11 Commission concluded in 2004 that the U.S. was engaged in a war with terrorists and never realized it, they reasoned that "a failure of imagination" had prevented us from seeing it coming. But after billions of dollars and almost a decade of fighting in the Middle East, will...

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Main Author: Phares, Walid, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Threshold Editions, 2010.
Edition:First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Since 1979
Democracy > Middle East.
Jihad.
Islam and politics > Middle East.
Democracy > Africa, North.
Islam and politics > Africa, North.
Islam and politics.
Politics and government.
Democracy.
Middle East > Politics and government > 1979-
Africa, North > Politics and government > 21st century.
North Africa.
Middle East.
Table of Contents:
  • A revolution against the Caliphate?
  • How the West missed the story and may miss it again
  • The missed century : how the democratic revolution failed during the twentieth century
  • The 1900s : a dark tunnel for dissidents
  • Lights from the window : post-9/11 Western interventions
  • Democracy sabotaged
  • Freedom and its obstructors
  • The Taliban's nightmare : women against their oppressors
  • Mesopotamia rises
  • The Cedars Revolution : the battle over free Lebanon
  • Syria's reformers : opposition against the Baath
  • The Green Revolution : Iran's youth, women, and minorities
  • Hell in Sudan : genocide against Africans and the end of the last apartheid
  • The greater Maghreb : the most violent jihadists and their nemesis
  • The Copts and liberals : Egypt's rising democrats
  • Arabia's liberals : how the peninsula produces jihadism and its antidote
  • Islamists versus Muslim democrats : the war for the soul of the Muslim world.

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