Morocco : the Islamist awakening and other challenges /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Online Access: | ebrary MyiLibrary Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description Rezension Rezension Available to Stanford-affiliated users at https://elibro.net/ereader/elibrodemo/166100 |
| Abstract: | In Morocco, Marvine Howe, a former correspondent for The New York Times presents an incisive and comprehensive review of the Moroccan kingdom and its people, past and present. She provides a vivid and frank portrait of late King Hassan, whom she knew personally and credits with laying the foundations of a modern, pro-Western state and analyzes the pressures his successor, King Mohammed VI has come under to transform the autocratic monarchy into a full-fledged democracy. Howe addresses emerging issues and problems--equal rights for women, elimination of corruption and correction ofglaringeconomic and social disparities--and asks the fundamental question: can this ancient Muslim kingdom embrace western democracy in an era of deepening divisions between the Islamic world and the West? |
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| Physical Description: | 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-403) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0195169638 9780195169638 |