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Author Phares, Walid, 1957-

Title The coming revolution : struggle for freedom in the Middle East / Walid Phares.

Published New York : Threshold Editions, 2010.
Edition 1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.

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Description xv, 383 pages ; 25 cm
Summary "In his book The Coming Revolution: The Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East, Walid Phares shows the free world the real aspirations of the peoples in the Middle East. We cannot ignore the deep desire for freedom by women, youth, and minorities in the region. They are the anti-Jihadist majority we need to engage and work with as partners. Phares makes their case clear..." --
"Walid Phares is the leading expert on the war of ideas between Jihadism and democracy." --
"In his definitive book, The Coming Revolution: The Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East, Professor Walid Phares is shedding a bright light on the fare of all oppressed peoples of the region, particularly the minorities such as Coprs, Kurds, Berbers, Africans, women, and others. Phares' vanguard work will mark a benchmark in Middle East studies. It will give hope for a better, freer future to the region, and the world." --
"Walid Phares is a daring historian. He plays towards the Arab and Muslim world the role of Russian thinker Andrei Amalrik towards the Soviet Union: Speaking the truth." --
"Walid Phares' The Coming Revolution is a prediction to social and political change which will change the face of the Middle East, and the future of the planet. Phares is reading us the future." --Book Jacket.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects Democracy -- Africa, North.
Islam and politics -- Africa, North.
Africa, North -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
ISBN 9781439178379
OCLC # 617550836
LC CARD # 2010024620
CALL # JQ1758.A91 P43 2010
956.05 22
Table of Contents
 Preface: A Revolution against the Caliphate?xi
 Introduction: How the West Missed the Story and May Miss it Again1
1.Missed Century: How the Democratic Revolution Failed During the Twentieth Century5
2.1990s: A Dark Tunnel for Dissidents31
3.Lights from the Window: Post-9/11 Western Interventions65
4.Democracy Sabotaged97
5.Freedom and its Obstructors131
6.Taliban's Nightmare: Women against Their Oppressors147
7.Mesopotamia Rises165
8.Cedars Revolution: The Battle over Free Lebanon183
9.Syria's Reformers: Opposition against the Baath203
10.Green Revolution: Iran's Youth, Women, and Minorities221
11.Hell in Sudan: Genocide against Africans and the End of the Last Apartheid251
12.Greater Maghreb: The Most Violent Jihadists and Their Nemesis275
13.Copts and Liberals: Egypt's Rising Democrats287
14.Arabia's Liberals: How the Peninsula Produces Jihadism and its Antidote305
15.Islamists versus Muslim Democrats: The War for the Soul of the Muslim World323
 Afterword341
 Notes347
 Index367