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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798222103321

Titolo

Political identities and popular uprisings in the Middle East / / [edited by] Shabnam J. Holliday and Philip Leech

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, Limited, , 2016

ISBN

1-78348-450-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

321.0940956

Soggetti

Group identity - Political aspects - Middle East

Protest movements - Middle East

Demonstrations - Middle East

Political activists - Middle East

Revolutions - Middle East

Political culture - Middle East

Middle East Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Shabnam J. Holliday and Philip Leech -- Divided we stand? : the heterogeneous political identities of Iran's 2009-2010 uprisings / Shabnam J. Holliday and Paola Rivetti -- The spring in Sulaimani : Kurdish protest and political identities / Nicole F. Watts -- Underlying fragility : the absence of hegemony and popular demonstrations in the West Bank, 2011-12 / Philip Leech -- Israeli grassroots activism : recent waves of protests, and heterogeneous political identities / Giulia Daniele -- From Ba'thist nationalism to new Syrian identities : how the emerging Syrian civil society defines itself / Lorenzo Trombetta -- Political identities and the uprising in Yemen / Fernando Carvajal -- In want of the people : Tahrir as a revolutionary reconstitution of the Egyptian national-popular subject / Brecht De Smet -- The Tunisian uprising, Ennahdha, and the revival of an Arab-Islamic identity / Rory McCarthy -- Conclusion / Shabnam J. Holliday and Philip Leech.

Sommario/riassunto

"Explores the articulation of identity in the context of popular uprisings in the Middle East, going beyond a focus on the Arab Spring"--Provided



by publisher.