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The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions
Nation Books
March 2012
On Sale: February 28, 2012
272 pages
ISBN: 1568587082
EAN: 9781568587080
Kindle: B00722SBSC
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Non-Fiction
The Invisible Arab traces the roots of the revolutions in
the Arab world. Marwan Bishara, chief policy analyst of Al
Jazeera English and the anchor of the program “Empire”,
combines on-the-ground reporting, extensive research and
scholarship, and political commentary in this book on the
complex influences that made the revolutions possible.
Bishara argues that the inclusive, pluralistic nationalism
that motivated the revolutions are indispensable to their
long-term success. The Invisible Arab is a voyage in time from the Arab world’s
'liberation generation’ through the 'defeated' and 'lost
generations', arriving at today’s 'miracle generation'.
Bishara unpacks how this new generation, long seen as a
demographic bomb, has proved to be the agent of progress,
unity and freedom. It has in turn used social networks to
mobilize for social justice. Bishara discusses how Israel, oil, terrorism and radical
Islam have affected the interior identity of the region as
well as Western projections upon it. Protection of Israel,
Western imperial ambition, a thirst for oil, and fear of
radicalism have caused many Western regimes and media to
characterize Arab countries and people as unreceptive to
democracy or progress. These ideas are as one-dimensional as
they are foolhardy. Bishara argues that the Arab revolutions
present a great window of opportunity for reinventing and
improving Arab ties with the rest of the world— notably the
West—on the basis of mutual respect and mutual interest. The revolutions will be judged by how they realize freedom
and justice, and how they can pave the way for reconciling
and accommodating nationalism and Islam with democracy.
Bishara argues that these pillars—liberty and justice
reconciled with religion and nationalism, form the bedrock
that will allow stability and progress to flourish in the
Arab world and beyond.
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