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Human Rights in the Arab World : Independent Voices.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (332 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812208849
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human Rights in the Arab WorldDDC classification:
  • 323.0917/4927
LOC classification:
  • JC599.A65 -- H86 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Human Rights and Agency in the Arab World -- Part I: Human Rights, Islam, Islamists -- 1 The Tail and the Dog: Constructing Islam and Human Rights in Political Context -- 2 A Question of Human Rights Ethics: Defending the Islamists -- Part II: Globalization and the Impact of Human Rights -- 3 Globalization and Human Rights: On a Current Debate Among Arab Intellectuals -- 4 Transnational Human Rights Networks and Human Rights in Egypt -- 5 Women, Citizenship, and Civil Society in the Arab World -- Part III: Problems of Human Rights NGOs and Activism -- 6 Human Rights in the Arab World: Reflections on the Challenges Facing Human Rights Activism -- 7 Human Rights NGOs and the ''Foreign Funding Debate'' in Egypt -- 8 Justice in Heaven -- Part IV: Country-Specific Case Studies -- 9 Some Yemeni Ideas About Human Rights -- 10 Got Rights? Public Interest Litigation and the Egyptian Human Rights Movement -- 11 When the Time Is Ripe: The Struggle to Create an Institutional Culture of Human Rights in Morocco -- Conclusion: Normative and Political Dimensions of Contemporary Arab Debates on Human Rights -- Appendix 1: Documents -- Appendix 2: Treaty Ratifications, Notable Reservations, Understandings, and Declarations -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Human Rights and Agency in the Arab World -- Part I: Human Rights, Islam, Islamists -- 1 The Tail and the Dog: Constructing Islam and Human Rights in Political Context -- 2 A Question of Human Rights Ethics: Defending the Islamists -- Part II: Globalization and the Impact of Human Rights -- 3 Globalization and Human Rights: On a Current Debate Among Arab Intellectuals -- 4 Transnational Human Rights Networks and Human Rights in Egypt -- 5 Women, Citizenship, and Civil Society in the Arab World -- Part III: Problems of Human Rights NGOs and Activism -- 6 Human Rights in the Arab World: Reflections on the Challenges Facing Human Rights Activism -- 7 Human Rights NGOs and the ''Foreign Funding Debate'' in Egypt -- 8 Justice in Heaven -- Part IV: Country-Specific Case Studies -- 9 Some Yemeni Ideas About Human Rights -- 10 Got Rights? Public Interest Litigation and the Egyptian Human Rights Movement -- 11 When the Time Is Ripe: The Struggle to Create an Institutional Culture of Human Rights in Morocco -- Conclusion: Normative and Political Dimensions of Contemporary Arab Debates on Human Rights -- Appendix 1: Documents -- Appendix 2: Treaty Ratifications, Notable Reservations, Understandings, and Declarations -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

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.

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