TY - BOOK AU - Bellin,Eva AU - Brand,Laurie AU - Carapico,Sheila AU - Crystal,Jill AU - Doron,Gideon AU - Entelis,John P. AU - Gole,Nilùfer AU - Hermassi,Abdelbaki AU - Hicks,Neil AU - Hinnebusch,Raymond A. AU - Humadi,Zuhair AU - Ibrahim,Saad Eddin AU - Kamil al-Sayyid,Mustapha AU - Kazemi,Farhad AU - Maghraoui,Abdeslam AU - Messarra,Antoine AU - Mosely Lesch,Ann AU - Moussalli,Ahmad AU - Muslih,Muhammad AU - Norton,Augustus Richard AU - Odhibat,Atef AU - Richards,Alan AU - Roy,Sara AU - Schwedler,Jillian AU - Toprak,Binnaz AU - al-Najjar,Ghanim TI - Toward Civil Society in the Middle East?: A Primer SN - 9781555875886 PY - 2023///] CY - Boulder : PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers, KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Preface --; Introduction: Civil Society and the Study of Middle East Politics --; 1 The Future of Civil Society in the Middle East --; 2 Modern Islamic Fundamentalist Discourses on Civil Society, Pluralism, and Democracy --; 3 Democratization in the Arab World --; 4 Economic Pressures for Accountable Governance in the Middle East and North Africa --; 5 Civil Society and the Authoritarian Temptation in Algerian Politics --; 6 Algeria's Short-Lived Experiment with Electoral Politics --; 7 A Civil Society in Egypt? --; 8 Civil Society and Iranian Politics --; 9 Civil Society Under the Ba'th in Iraq --; 10 Two Civil Societies and One State: Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel --; 11 "In the Beginning Was the State..." Civil Society in Jordan --; 12 Civil Society in Jordan: A Preliminary Study --; 13 Civil Society in Kuwait --; 14 Civil Society in the Arab Gulf States --; 15 Civil Society Against the War System: The Lebanese Case --; 16 Palestinian Civil Society --; 17 Civil Society in the Gaza Strip --; 18 Early Elections in the West Bank and Gaza --; 19 The Destruction of Civil Society in the Sudan --; 20 State, Civil Society, and Political Change in Syria --; 21 Civil Society in Formation: Tunisia --; 22 Notes on Civil Society in Tunisia --; 23 Civil Society in Turkey --; 24 Authoritarian Secularism and Islamic Participation: The Case of Turkey --; 25 Yemen Between Civility and Civil War --; Conclusion: Civil Society and Political Reform in the Middle East --; Bibliography --; About the Contributors --; About the Book; restricted access N2 - An introduction to the major theoretical debates about civil society in the Middle East and to the vitality and significance of civil society in seventeen Middle Eastern countries UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685852740 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685852740 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685852740/original ER -