Overview
Exploring the most formidable human rights challenges facing the Middle East - the rights of women, minorities, migrant workers, and those of various sexual orientations, and the rights of all people to engage in civil disobedience - this volume addresses the extent to which dynamics surrounding human rights conditions in the region conform to or diverge from such dynamics in other parts of the world.Offering wide-ranging and rich analyses, the contributors to this volume argue that for human rights to be effectively enforced, they must be locally justified and achieved. The 2011 Arab revolts demonstrate that the people of the region can shape the condition of human rights in their societies.
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Author: Professor Mahmood Monshipouri (San Francisco State University) ,
Professor Mahmood Monshipouri (San Francisco State University)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN: 9781322966366
ISBN 10: 1322966362
Pages: 283
Publication Date: 01 January 2011
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The future of human rights in the Middle East is among the most important subjects facing policy makers and concerned citizens alike. This collection of essays provides a good starting point for improved understanding of this crucial subject. The reader comes away with greater knowledge of the key issues selected for examination. - David P. Forsythe, professor emeritus, university professor, and Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor, Political Science, University of Nebraska
Author Information
Mahmood Monshipouri is an Associate Professor of International Relations at San Francisco State University. He specializes in human rights, international relations, globalization, democratization, and Middle Eastern and Muslim world studies. He is the author, most recently, of Muslims in Global Politics: Identities, Interests, and Human Rights (2009) and Terrorism, Security, and Human Rights: Harnessing the Rule of Law (2012). He is co-editor of Islam and Human Rights: Advocacy for Social Change in Local Contexts (2006) and Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization (2003). He is author of Islamism, Secularism, and Human Rights in the Middle East (1998) and Liberalization, Democratization, and Human Rights in the Third World (1995). His articles have appeared in Insight Turkey, International Peacekeeping, International Politics, Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, Journal of Church and State, Ethics and International Affairs, and Middle East Policy. He is the chair of the Best Book Award Committee, Human Rights Section, of the American Political Science Association. He regularly reviews books for Human Rights Quarterly. Monshipouri also serves as one of the editors of the Muslim World Journal of Human Rights.
