The coming revolution : struggle for freedom in the Middle East

Phares, Walid 1957- (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 9781439178379 :
ISBN: 9781439180495 (ebook)
ISBN: 1439178372
ISBN: 1439180490 (ebook)
Physical Description: print
xv, 383 p. ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Publisher: New York, NY : Threshold Editions, 2010.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-366) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.