Illusion Of Progress In The Arab World

Author : Galal Amin
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617970566

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Illusion Of Progress in the Arab World by Galal Amin Pdf

With the razor pen and keen intellect that have won him numerous loyal readers for his previous books, Egyptian economist Galal Amin here takes on the terms of the debate between the Arab world and the west. Amin deconstructs in his own inimitable style the language and underlying assumptions with which the west habitually assails Arab countries and politics. He applies his sharp wit and powers of observation to notions of freedom, democracy, human rights, terrorism (of course), and more, all of which fare the worse for falling under his gaze. In Amin's view, the western concepts of progress and backwardness as they apply to the Arab world are wrong-headed, and continuing to deploy them as theoretical tools leads into all sorts of blind alleys. True to form, Amin's analysis is laced with scholarly research, much humanity, and sly, subtle humor. His critique of the much-discussed UNDP Arab Human Development Report represents a welcome and reasoned Arab reply to this document that has been too frequently used as a cudgel to bash the Arab world. Accompanied by the gently humorous illustrations of Samir Abd al-Ghani, The Illusion of Progress in the Arab World is a deftly argued critique of the way Arab societies are judged by the west.

Author : Galal Amin
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9774249712

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The illusion of Progress in The Arab World:Acritique of Western Misconstruction by Galal Amin Pdf

Takes on the terms of the debate between the Arab world and the West. The author's critique of the much-discussed UNDP Arab Human Development Report represents a reasoned Arab reply to this document that has been too frequently used as a cudgel to bash the Arab world.

Author : Maha Habib
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857728012

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Muslim Identities and Modernity by Maha Habib Pdf

What have the concepts of modernity and secularization meant for Islamic tradition, culture and society? How have the discourses which surround all of these issues influenced Muslim self-perception and individual identity? There have been many attempts to describe and analyse the encounter between Islam and modernity in the Middle East, but few have been able so effectively to explore the impact this has on the idea and reality of religious identity and individual religiosity. Maha F. Habib examines modernity from this angle, offering socio-cultural, philosophical and literary perspectives. She assesses how this is played out in Egypt, analysing cultural changes in the country through its intellectual thought and literature, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Her references to the works of Muhammad Abdu, Muhammad Husayn Haykal, 'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad, Naguib Mahfouz, Alaa al-Aswany and Salwa Bakr reveal contemporary issues and concerns which will interest those researching the cultural and social milieu of modern Egypt.

Author : Tezenlo Thong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317075318

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Progress and Its Impact on the Nagas by Tezenlo Thong Pdf

The term ’progress’ is a modern Western notion that life is always improving and advancing toward an ideal state. It is a vital modern concept which underlies geographic explorations and scientific and technological inventions as well as the desire to harness nature in order to increase human beings’ ease and comfort. With the advent of Western colonization and to the great detriment of the colonized, the notion of progress began to perniciously and pervasively permeate across cultures. This book details the impact of the notion of progress on the Nagas and their culture. The interaction between the Nagas and the West, beginning with British military conquest and followed by American missionary intrusion, has resulted in the gradual demise of Naga culture. It is almost a cliché to assert that since the colonial contact, the long evolved Naga traditional values are being replaced by Western values. Consequences are still being felt in the lack of sense of direction and confusion among the Nagas today. Just like other Indigenous Peoples, whose history is characterized by traumatic cultural turmoil because of colonial interference, the Nagas have long been engaged in self-shame, self-negation and self-sabotage.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Middle East
ISBN : UCR:31210011646302

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The Middle East in the 1990's by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UCSC:32106018508322

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Choice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Scott Anderson
Publisher : Signal
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771007743

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Fractured Lands by Scott Anderson Pdf

The catastrophic story of how the Arab world has descended into chaos since the 2003 invasion of Iraq as told by the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and international bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a probing and insightful work of reportage. From world-renowned war correspondent, Scott Anderson, comes this gripping, human account of the unraveling of the Arab world, the rise of ISIS, and the global refugee crisis after the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003. This portrait of the region is framed by the stories of six individuals--the matriarch of a dissident Egyptian family, a Libyan Air Force cadet with divided loyalties, an Iraqi day-laborer turned ISIS fighter, a Kurdish doctor on leave from his practice to fight ISIS, a college student caught in the chaos of Aleppo, and an Iraqi women's rights activist targeted by militias. Through these personal stories, the myriad, complex causes of the widespread war and instability in the region come into focus and the concrete reality of the unspeakable tragedies occurring in the Middle East becomes clear.

Author : Azzam Tamimi,John L. Esposito
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0814782612

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Islam and Secularism in the Middle East by Azzam Tamimi,John L. Esposito Pdf

Western civilization tends to view secularism as a positive achievement. From this perspective, benefits of secularizing trends include the separation of church and state, the rule of law, and freedom from organized religion. In the Arab Middle East, however, Islamist intellectuals increasingly cite Western-inspired secularism as the source of the region's social dislocation and political instability. While secularism in the West led to the spread of democratic values, in the Muslim world it has been associated with dictatorship, the violation of human rights, and the abrogation of civil liberties. Islam and Secularism in the Middle East examines the origins and growth of the movement to abolish the secularizing reforms of the past century by creating a political order guided by Shariah law. Contributors explain the Islamic rejection of secularism as a failed Western Christian ideal and also discuss how secularization was pioneered by those who thought Muslims could only advance politically by emulating Western practices, including the renunciation of religion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Middle East
ISBN : UOM:39015064843926

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Middle East Policy Survey by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mishana Hosseinioun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319572109

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The Human Rights Turn and the Paradox of Progress in the Middle East by Mishana Hosseinioun Pdf

This book aims to shift the limited and often negative popular understanding of the Middle East’s place in the world by chronicling the region’s contributions to the international order rather than disorder, and to the development of the international human rights system. It elucidates the many paradoxes that make the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region both a troubling place and also a region brimming with great potential for peace, prosperity and progress. By demonstrating the paradox of human rights progress amid regress, the book tells a radically new and more hopeful side of the story of the region that has largely been obfuscated and omitted from the chronicles of history. In so doing, it shows that fostering a human rights culture is not only possible for all universally, it is inevitable.

Author : al-Azmeh Aziz al-Azmeh
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474447485

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Secularism in the Arab World by al-Azmeh Aziz al-Azmeh Pdf

This book is a translation of Aziz al-Azmeh's seminal work Al-'Ilmaniya min mandhur mukhtalif that was first published in Beirut in 1992. Both celebrated and criticised for its reflections on Arab secularisation and secularism in the modern history of the Arab World, it is the only study to date to approach its subject as a set of historical changes which affected the regulation of the social, political and cultural order, and which permeated the concrete workings of society, rather than as an ideological discussion framed from the outset by the assumed opposition between Islam and secularism. The author takes a comprehensive analytical perspective to show that an almost imperceptible yet real, multi-faceted and objective secularising process has been underway in the Arab world since the 1850s. The early onset was the result of adapting to systemic novelties introduced at the time and a reaction to the perceived European advance and local retardation. The need for meaningful reform, and the actions taken in order to put in place a new organisation of state and society based on modern organisational and educational criteria, rather than older, religious traditions, stemmed from the perceived weakness of Arab polities and from an internal drive to overcome this situation. The book follows these themes into the close of the 20th century, marked with the rise of Islamism. A preface to the English translation takes a retrospective look at the theme from the vantage point of social, political and intellectual issues of relevance today.

Author : Anis B. Brik
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781035312696

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Public Policy in the Arab World by Anis B. Brik Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Public Policy in the Arab World dissects the layered social, economic, and governance issues that define the Middle East and Northern African (MENA) region. Paying special attention to the Arab Spring protests and the COVID-19 pandemic, this insightful book takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining governance capacity, legitimacy, and the challenges encountered in crisis response.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : United States
ISBN : MSU:31293008122123

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The Department of State Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.

Author : مركز القدس للدراسات السياسية
Publisher : Al Manhal
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9796500030197

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Reform and change in the arab world by مركز القدس للدراسات السياسية Pdf

This book includes papers presented at the first conference entitled “Network of Reform and Democratic Change in the Arab World” which was jointly organized by Al Quds Center for Political Studies and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Amman, 8-10 December 2006. Papers were presented by intellectuals and politicians who reside on various locations of the reform spectrum. They addressed a wide range of reform concepts, its priorities and mechanism. The papers also tackle the reform experience and official, civil, Arab, and international initiatives. They also identify the role of “political Islam” in this process

Author : Andrew Hammond
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9774160541

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Popular Culture in the Arab World by Andrew Hammond Pdf

This volume explores Arab cultural life since World War II. Chapters cover topics such as radio/TV, the press, cinema, music, theatre, popular religion, belly dance, western consumerism, sport and the Arabic language.