1st Edition

Minority Politics in the Middle East and North Africa The Prospects for Transformative Change

Edited By Will Kymlicka, Eva Pföstl Copyright 2016
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

Projects of democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa have said little about the place of minorities and minority rights in their vision of reform, implying that these issues are best deferred to some indefinite future. While many people describe the Arab Spring as a ‘battle for pluralism’, there is a reluctance to discuss what this pluralism might actually mean for the political... Read more

1. Minority politics in the Middle East and North Africa: the prospects for transformative change Eva Pföstl and Will Kymlicka

2. A turning point? The Arab Spring and the Amazigh movement Bruce Maddy-Weitzman

3. The Middle East’s majority problems: minoritarian regimes and the threat of democracy Omar M. Dajani

4. Tribal hands and minority votes: ethnicity, regionalism and elections in Iran Rasmus Christian Elling

5. Unheard voices: state-making and popular participation in post-Ottoman Iraq Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç

6. The potential of history textbooks and curriculum reform in Iraqi Kurdistan within a conflict transformation frame: dealing with the past from a processual and dynamic perspective Jordi Tejel

7. Beyond the cross and the crescent: plural identities and the Copts in contemporary Egypt Vivian Ibrahim

8. The ‘Coptic question’ in post-revolutionary Egypt: citizenship, democracy, religion Paola Pizzo

Biography

Will Kymlicka is Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Eva Pföstl is Contract Professor in Political Science at LUISS University, Rome, Italy.