Middle East and North Africa by Paul J. Magnarella - 9781840149135

Middle East and North AfricaGovernance, Democratization, Human Rights\nAuthor(s): Paul J. Magnarella\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited\nISBN-13: 9781840149135, 978-1840149135\nSynopsis\nThis collection contains articles by highly regarded scholars assessing governance, democratisation and human rights in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. It also assesses the role that Islam plays in these areas. In the spirit of the 50th anniversary year of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, the authors examine the interrelationships among Islam, politics and human rights and evaluate each countrys contemporary record. The book contains in-depth articles on Islam and politics, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, the Gulf States, Turkey, Egypt and the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania). The authors discuss recent political developments in each of these countri.