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Killing the Arab Spring /

"Killing the Arab Spring" tells the stories of the Arab Spring uprising in fifteen Middle East states, from the point of view of a secular Middle Eastern political analyst familiar with the politics, the culture of the people and the history of the area.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: El-Hasan, Hasan Afif, 1932- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Algora Publishing, [2019]
Subjects:
Arab Spring, 2010-
Middle East > Politics and government > 21st century.
Islam and politics > Middle East.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The religion of Islam
  • Tasawwuf
  • Ahmadiyya
  • Shiʻa Islam
  • The Zaidi Shiʻa sect
  • The Ismaili Shiʻa sect
  • The Alawites sect
  • Hashashin Shiʻa sect
  • The Islamic monarchy
  • Arabia : the birthplace of Islam and Wahhabism
  • Early reformers
  • The Muslim brotherhood (MB)
  • Arab tribalism
  • The US and the Arab Spring in Tunisia
  • Yemen
  • The Arab Spring in Yemen
  • Egypt
  • Sectarianism in Egypt
  • Egypt's copts
  • Nubia and the Egyptian Nubians
  • The Arab Spring in Egypt
  • Libya
  • The Berber
  • The Arab Spring in Libya
  • The Arab Spring in Syria
  • The Palestinian refugees in Syria
  • Lebanon
  • Lebanon and Israel
  • The Maronites
  • The Druze
  • Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
  • The Arab Spring in Lebanon
  • Jordan
  • The Arab Spring in Jordan
  • Morocco
  • The Arab Spring in Morocco
  • Iraq
  • Saddam's Iraq wars
  • The invasion of Iraq : the second Gulf War
  • Iraqi Kurds
  • The Arab Spring in Iraq
  • Algeria
  • The Arab Spring in Algeria
  • Qatar
  • Kuwait
  • United Arab Emirates (UAE)
  • The Arab Spring in the Gulf States
  • Arab Spring in Kuwait
  • The Arab Spring in Saudi Arabia
  • The Palestinians
  • The Arab Spring in the Palestinian Authority
  • Israel and the West
  • The Arab Spring and Israel
  • The legacy of the Arab Spring.