Minorities and the State in the Arab WorldOfra Bengio, Gabriel Ben-Dor Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999 - 224 עמודים This text offers a comprehensive discussion of minorities and ethnic politics in eight Arab countries. Focusing on the strategic political chaos made by minorities, majorities and regimes in power, the authors point to probable future developments in majority-minority relations in the region. |
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Nationalism in the Making? | 31 |
Egypts Coptic Pandoras | 53 |
A NonMuslim Minority | 73 |
Demographic Majority | 91 |
The Maronites of Lebanon | 111 |
From Ethnic Minority | 129 |
Class and Religious Protest | 171 |
Conclusion | 184 |
Selected Bibliography | 207 |
The Contributors | 217 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
African Ait Ahmed al-'Arabi Al-Milal wal-nihal Alawi Alawi community Algerian April Arab Muslim Arab world army Asad Asad's Ba'th Bahrain Bashir Berber Berber Spring Cairo Christians cleavage compact minorities conflict Coptic Copts cultural democratic developed domination Druze East Bankers economic Egypt Egyptian elections elite ethnic groups federal forces French Gabriel Ben-Dor Gulf Hafiz al-Asad Husayn Ibn Khaldun Ibn Khaldun Center Ibrahim identity ideological integration International intifada Iran Iranian Iraq Iraqi Islamic Islamists Israel issue Jordan Jumayyil Kabylian Khalifa Khartoum Kurdish Kurdistan Kurds leaders leadership Lebanese Lebanon London loyalty majority Maronites MECS Middle East militant military modern movement nationalist non-Muslim Palestine Palestinians parties percent political population president problem radical regime regime's region religion religious role rule sectarian secular shari'a Shaykh Shi'i Shi'i opposition social socioeconomic SPLA struggle Sudan Sudanese Sunni Syria Tamazight territorial tion tribal tribes unity University Press