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Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East
Basic Books
June 2013
On Sale: June 11, 2013
240 pages
ISBN: 0465029833
EAN: 9780465029839
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Once a voiceless region dominated by authoritarian rulers,
the Arab world seems to have developed an identity of its
own almost overnight. The series of uprisings that began in
2010 profoundly altered politics in the region, forcing many
experts to drastically revise their understandings of the
Arab people. Yet while the Arab uprisings have indeed
triggered seismic changes, Arab public opinion has been a
perennial but long ignored force influencing events in the
Middle East.
In The World Through Arab Eyes,
eminent political scientist Shibley Telhami draws upon a
decade’s worth of original polling data, probing the depths
of the Arab psyche to analyze the driving forces and
emotions of the Arab uprisings and the next phase of Arab
politics. With great insight into the people and countries
he has surveyed, Telhami provides a longitudinal account of
Arab identity, revealing how Arabs’ present-day priorities
and grievances have been gestating for decades. The demand
for dignity foremost in the chants of millions went far
beyond a straightforward struggle for food and individual
rights. The Arabs’ cries were not simply a response to
corrupt leaders, but were in fact inseparable from the
collective respect they crave from the outside world.
Decades of perceived humiliations at the hands of the West
have left many Arabs with a wounded sense of national pride,
but also a desire for political systems with elements of
Western democracies—an apparent contradiction that is only
one of many complicating our understanding of the monumental
shifts in Arab politics and society.
In astonishing
detail and with great humanity, Telhami identifies the key
prisms through which Arabs view issues central to their
everyday lives, from democracy to religion to foreign
relations with Iran, Israel, the United States, and other
world powers. The World Through Arab Eyes reveals the
hearts and minds of a people often misunderstood but ever
more central to our globalized world.
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