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THE SECOND ARAB AWAKENING
By: Marwan Muasher
And the Battle for Pluralism
Yale University Press
February 2014
On Sale: January 28, 2014
232 pages
ISBN: 0300186398
EAN: 9780300186390
Kindle: B00HS4GMPS
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Non-Fiction
This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first Awakening in the nineteenth century and extending into future decades whenβif the dream is realizedβa new Arab world defined by pluralism and tolerance will emerge. Marwan Muasher, former foreign minister of Jordan, asserts that all sidesβthe United States, Europe, Israel, and Arab governments alikeβwere deeply misguided in their thinking about Arab politics and society when the turmoil of the Arab Spring erupted. He explains the causes of the unrest, tracing them back to the first Arab Awakening, and warns of the forces today that threaten the success of the Second Arab Awakening, ignited in December 2010. Hope rests with the new generation and its commitment to tolerance, diversity, the peaceful rotation of power, and inclusive economic growth, Muasher maintains. He calls on the West to rethink political Islam and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and he discusses steps all parties can take to encourage positive state-building in the freshly unsettled Arab world.  Media BuzzDiane Rehm Show - NPR - February 20, 2014
PBS News Hour - January 9, 2014
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