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Author Muravchik, Joshua

Title The next founders : voices of democracy in the Middle East / by Joshua Muravchik
Edition 1st American ed
Published New York : Encounter Books, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (371 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction Seedlings in the Desert; The ProtesterSaudi Arabia:Wajeha Al-Huwaider; The Politician Iraq: Mithal al-Alusi; The Revolutionist Iran: Mohsen Sazegara; The Publisher Egypt: Hisham Kassem; The Activist Palestine: Bassem Eid; The Feminist Kuwait: Rola Dashti; The Dissident Syria: Ammar Abdulhamid; Conclusion Models for a Rising Generation; Endnotes; Index; Photo Credits
Summary Before September 11, 2001, we Americans did not think much about freedom or democracy in the Middle East. U.S. policy toward the region aimed to assure a reliable flow of oil, to encourage peace between the Arabs and Israel, and above all, during the Cold War, to prevent our rival from gaining any strategic advantage over us. 9/11 impelled us to reconsider. Now, as we are entangled in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Mid-East's political and social quandaries lie at the very core of our foreign policy objectives. And yet, after years of blood and fortune spent on the democratization of t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Politicians -- Middle East -- Biography
Political activists -- Middle East -- Biography
Social reformers -- Middle East -- Biography
Democracy -- Middle East
Social change -- Middle East
Democracy
Political activists
Politics and government
Politicians
Social change
Social reformers
SUBJECT Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89000800
Middle East -- Biography
Subject Middle East
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781594034022
1594034028
1282488031
9781282488038
9786612488030
6612488034