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1. American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East

   From Bush to Obama

   Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh, James Piscatori, Benjamin MacQueen, Amin Saikal

   Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

   The recent "Arab spring", with its popular uprisings in many Arab countries, has exposed the ambiguity at the heart of American promotion of democracy in the Middle East. The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were packaged as democracy promotion, as heralding the beginning of a new phase in the...

   To Be Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Islam and Human Rights in Practice

   Perspectives Across the Ummah

   Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh, Benjamin MacQueen

   Series: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies

   Questions over the compatibility of Islam and Human Rights have become a key area of debate in the perceived tensions between ‘Islam and the West’. In many ways, discussion over the stance of Islam in relation to such factors as gender rights, religious freedom, social and political freedoms, and...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge