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Title

Human rights in the Arab world : independent voices / edited by Anthony Chase and Amr Hamzawy.

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Chase, Anthony Tirado
• Hamzawy, Amr

Description

viii, 322 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Comprises a collection of essays about the unfortunate and longstanding marginalization of human rights in the Arab world, the obstacles that bar the way to implementing these rights, and pathways to improve human rights and welfare in the future. Discusses the intersection of globalization and human rights, the especial plight of women's rights in the Arab world, case studies in Yemeni, Egypt, and Morocco, the difficulties faced by activists and NGOs pushing for human rights.

Series Statement

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Subject

Human rights > Arab countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-309) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Human rights and agency in the Arab world / Anthony Chase -- The tail and the dog : constructing Islam and human rights in political context / Anthony Chase -- A question of human rights ethics : defending the Islamists / Bahey el-Din Hassan -- Globalization and human rights : on a current debate among Arab intellectuals / Amr Hamzawy -- Transnational human rights networks and human rights in Egypt / Neil Hicks -- Women, citizenship, and civil society in the Arab world / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Human rights in the Arab world : reflections on the challenges facing human rights activism / Hanny Megally -- Human rights NGOs and the "foreign funding debate" in Egypt / Nicola Pratt -- Justice in heaven / Eyad El Sarraj -- Some Yemeni ideas about human rights / Sheila Carapico -- Got rights? Public interest litigation and the Egyptian human rights movement / Tamir Moustafa -- When the time is ripe : the struggle to create an institutional culture of human rights in Morocco / Susan Waltz and Lindsay Benstead -- Conclusion : Normative and political dimensions of contemporary Arab debates on human rights / Amr Hamzawy -- Appendix 1 : Documents -- Appendix 2 : Treaty ratifications, notable reservations, understandings, and declarations / Anthony Chase and Kyle M. Ballard.

ISBN

• 0812239350 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780812239355

LCCN

^^2006044701

OCLC

• 65187415
• SCSB-10102709

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library