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Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices »
Authors: Anthony Chase (Editor), Amr Hamzawy
ISBN-13: 9780812220322, ISBN-10: 0812220323
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: February 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Anthony Chase
Anthony Chase teaches in the Department of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College. Amr Hamzawy is Senior Associate at the Democracy and Rule of Law Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Book Synopsis
This is the first book in English that draws together the work of intellectuals at the forefront of research on the Arab region's key human rights issues. Its empirical and theoretical focus is on the historical and contemporary place of human rights in Arab politics and the obstacles to advancing rights in the region.
Table of Contents
| Introduction : human rights and agency in the Arab world | 1 | |
| 1 | The tail and the dog : constructing Islam and human rights in political context | 21 |
| 2 | A question of human rights ethics : defending the Islamists | 37 |
| 3 | Globalization and human rights : on a current debate among Arab intellectuals | 51 |
| 4 | Transnational human rights networks and human rights in Egypt | 64 |
| 5 | Women, citizenship, and civil society in the Arab world | 89 |
| 6 | Human rights in the Arab world : reflections on the challenges facing human rights activism | 107 |
| 7 | Human rights NGOs and the "foreign funding debate" in Egypt | 114 |
| 8 | Justice in heaven | 127 |
| 9 | Some Yemeni ideas about human rights | 137 |
| 10 | Got rights? : public interest litigation and the Egyptian human rights movement | 153 |
| 11 | When the time is ripe : the struggle to create an institutional culture of human rights in Morocco | 174 |
| Conclusion : normative and political dimensions of contemporary Arab debates on human rights | 197 | |
| App. 1 | Documents | 201 |
| App. 2 | Treaty ratifications, notable reservations, understandings, and declarations | 237 |
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