Modern Middle East: In-Depth Research

From Islamic extremism in Algeria to civil war in Iraq, this volume provides in-depth coverage of political and cultural conflict in the Middle East.

An incisive analysis of Islamist movements in the Middle East A political, social, and cultural battle is currently raging in the Middle East.

The human rights revolution began with a disarmingly simple idea: that every individual, whatever his or her nationality, political beliefs, or ethnic and religious heritage, possesses an inviolable right to be treated with dignity.

The "Arab Spring" all started when a young Tunisian fruit seller set himself on fire in protest of a government official confiscating his apples and slapping his face. The aftermath of that one personal protest grew to become the Middle East movement known as the Arab Spring--a wave of disparate events that included protests, revolutions, hopeful reform movements, and bloody civil wars.