Brian Whitaker

What's Really Wrong with the Middle East (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The problems in the Middle East run deeper than dictatorship. Inspired by the popular uprising that overthrew Tunisia's president, Arabs across the Middle East are demanding change. But achieving real freedom will involve more than the removal of a few dictators. Looking beyond the turmoil reported on our TV screens, Guardian journalist Brian Whitaker examines the 'freedom deficit' that affects Arabs in their daily lives: their struggles against corruption, discrimination and bureaucracy, and the stifling authoritarianism that pervades homes, schools and mosques as well as presidential palaces. Drawing on a wealth of new research and wide-ranging interviews, Whitaker analyses the views of people living in the region and argues that in order to achieve peace, prosperity and full participation in today's global economy, Arabs should embrace not only political change but far-reaching social and cultural change as well.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Saqi Books
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780863564697
• Artikelnr.: 38231380

Autorenporträt

Brian Whitaker was Middle East editor at the Guardian for seven years and is currently an editor for the newspaper's Comment is Free website. He is also the author of Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East (Saqi Books, 2011). His website, www.al-bab.com, is devoted to Arab culture and politics. "

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgments 7 Introduction 9 1 Thinking inside the box 17 2 The gilded cage 48 3 States without citizens 82 4 The politics of God 115 5 Vitamin W 148 6 The urge to control 179 7 A sea of victims 231 8 Alien tomatoes 260 9 Escape from history 290 Notes 325 Bibliography 371 Index 375