ABSTRACT
This book, first published in 1991, moves beyond sensational headlines to explore how Middle Eastern men and women speak and feel about the societies in which they live. Kevin Dwyer makes use of extensive research and interview material from Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco and combines first-hand testimony with vivid and illuminating analysis. The voices are those of lawyers, political militants, religious thinkers, journalists and human rights activists who focus their discussion on the question of human rights and critical issues in social and cultural life.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |15 pages
Introduction: ‘Azmatology'
part |54 pages
Egypt: identity, religion and visions of society
chapter |14 pages
Universal visions, local visions
chapter |10 pages
Egypt since the July revolution
chapter |28 pages
Egyptian voices
part |56 pages
Morocco: the individual, human freedom and democracy
chapter |12 pages
Cultural obstacles?
chapter |11 pages
Independent Morocco
chapter |31 pages
Moroccan voices
part |67 pages
Tunisia: organizing for human rights and the rights of women
chapter |5 pages
Constructing civil society
chapter |11 pages
Independent Tunisia
chapter |23 pages
Organizing for human rights
chapter |26 pages
Organizing women
part |12 pages
Conclusion: ‘Dispute and struggle'