Books: "Arab Society in Revolt: The West’s Mediterranean Challenge" By Cesare Merlini and Olivier Roy

The West’s two big mistakes in the Arab world

by Jennifer S. Bryson

By treating Islam as monolithic and insisting on secularisation

 Western powers miss opportunities to help democracy take root.

Arab Society in Revolt offers policy-oriented advice from scholars in a variety of fields to help European and North American countries discern a way forward through the upheaval the "Arab Spring" has brought to the Middle East. The essays in this volume are substantive and research-rich, covering demographics and migration, Islamic revival movements and their relations to democracy, roles of women, use of modern communication technologies and platforms, and economics.

Some of the authors try to explain what the Arab Spring is, and is not.

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