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Author	Phares, Walid, 1957- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvt79PXmxy4F4kVKdcpT3
Title	The coming revolution : struggle for freedom in the Middle East / Walid Phares
Publish Info	New York : Threshold Editions, 2010
Edition	1st Threshold editions hardcover ed

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Contents

Preface: A Revolution against the Caliphate? xi

Introduction: How the West Missed the Story and May Miss it Again 1

1. The Missed Century: How the Democratic Revolution Failed During the Twentieth Century 5

2. The 1990s: A Dark Tunnel for Dissidents 31

3. Lights from the Window: Post-9/11 Western Interventions 65

4. Democracy Sabotaged 97

5. Freedom and its Obstructors 131

6. The Taliban's Nightmare: Women against Their Oppressors 147

7. Mesopotamia Rises 165

8. The Cedars Revolution: The Battle over Free Lebanon 183

9. Syria's Reformers: Opposition against the Baath 203

10. The Green Revolution: Iran's Youth, Women, and Minorities 221

11. Hell in Sudan: Genocide against Africans and the End of the Last Apartheid 251

12. The Greater Maghreb: The Most Violent Jihadists and Their Nemesis 275

13. The Copts and Liberals: Egypt's Rising Democrats 287

14. Arabia's Liberals: How the Peninsula Produces Jihadism and its Antidote 305

15. Islamists versus Muslim Democrats: The War for the Soul of the Muslim World 323

Afterword 341

Notes 347

Index 367

Description xv, 383 pages ; 25 cm

Note Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents A revolution against the Caliphate? -- How the West missed the story and may miss it again -- The missed century : how the democratic revolution failed during the twentieth century -- The 1900s : a dark tunnel for dissidents -- Lights from the window : post-9/11 Western interventions -- Democracy sabotaged -- Freedom and its obstructors -- The Taliban's nightmare : women against their oppressors -- Mesopotamia rises -- The Cedars Revolution : the battle over free Lebanon -- Syria's reformers : opposition against the Baath -- The Green Revolution : Iran's youth, women, and minorities -- Hell in Sudan : genocide against Africans and the end of the last apartheid -- The greater Maghreb : the most violent jihadists and their nemesis -- The Copts and liberals : Egypt's rising democrats -- Arabia's liberals : how the peninsula produces jihadism and its antidote -- Islamists versus Muslim democrats : the war for the soul of the Muslim world

Summary After the 9/11 Commission concluded in 2004 that the U.S. was engaged in a war with terrorists and never realized it, they reasoned that "a failure of imagination" had prevented us from seeing it coming. But after billions of dollars and almost a decade of fighting in the Middle East, will we miss the boat again? Walid Phares, Fox News terrorism and Middle East expert and a specialist in global strategies, argues that a race for control of the Middle East is on. Yet not a failure of imagination, but rather, of education has left Americans without essential information on the real roots of the rising threat. In fact, the West ignores the wide and disparate forces within the Muslim world--including a brotherhood against democracy that is fighting to bring the region under totalitarian control--and crucially underestimates the determined generation of youth feverishly waging a grassroots revolution toward democracy and human rights.--From publisher description

Subjects Democracy -- Middle East

Jihad

Islam and politics -- Middle East

Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-

Democracy -- Africa, North

Islam and politics -- Africa, North

Africa, North -- Politics and government -- 21st century

LC NO JQ1758.A91 P43 2010

Dewey No 956.05 22

OCLC # 617550836

ISBN 9781439178379

1439178372

9781439180495 (ebook)

1439180490 (ebook)

Isn/Std # (OCoLC)617550836

LCCN 2010024620

	Preface: A Revolution against the Caliphate?	xi
	Introduction: How the West Missed the Story and May Miss it Again	1
1.	The Missed Century: How the Democratic Revolution Failed During the Twentieth Century	5
2.	The 1990s: A Dark Tunnel for Dissidents	31
3.	Lights from the Window: Post-9/11 Western Interventions	65
4.	Democracy Sabotaged	97
5.	Freedom and its Obstructors	131
6.	The Taliban's Nightmare: Women against Their Oppressors	147
7.	Mesopotamia Rises	165
8.	The Cedars Revolution: The Battle over Free Lebanon	183
9.	Syria's Reformers: Opposition against the Baath	203
10.	The Green Revolution: Iran's Youth, Women, and Minorities	221
11.	Hell in Sudan: Genocide against Africans and the End of the Last Apartheid	251
12.	The Greater Maghreb: The Most Violent Jihadists and Their Nemesis	275
13.	The Copts and Liberals: Egypt's Rising Democrats	287
14.	Arabia's Liberals: How the Peninsula Produces Jihadism and its Antidote	305
15.	Islamists versus Muslim Democrats: The War for the Soul of the Muslim World	323
	Afterword	341
	Notes	347
	Index	367