Introduction -- The religion of Islam -- Tasawwuf -- Ahmadiyya -- Shiʻa Islam -- The Zaidi Shiʻa sect -- The Ismaili Shiʻa sect -- The Alawites sect -- Hashashin Shiʻa sect -- The Islamic monarchy -- Arabia : the birthplace of Islam and Wahhabism -- Early reformers -- The Muslim brotherhood (MB) -- Arab tribalism -- The US and the Arab Spring in Tunisia -- Yemen -- The Arab Spring in Yemen -- Egypt -- Sectarianism in Egypt -- Egypt's copts -- Nubia and the Egyptian Nubians -- The Arab Spring in Egypt -- Libya -- The Berber -- The Arab Spring in Libya -- The Arab Spring in Syria -- The Palestinian refugees in Syria -- Lebanon -- Lebanon and Israel -- The Maronites -- The Druze -- Palestinian refugees in Lebanon -- The Arab Spring in Lebanon -- Jordan -- The Arab Spring in Jordan -- Morocco -- The Arab Spring in Morocco -- Iraq -- Saddam's Iraq wars -- The invasion of Iraq : the second Gulf War -- Iraqi Kurds -- The Arab Spring in Iraq -- Algeria -- The Arab Spring in Algeria -- Qatar -- Kuwait -- United Arab Emirates (UAE) -- The Arab Spring in the Gulf States -- Arab Spring in Kuwait -- The Arab Spring in Saudi Arabia -- The Palestinians -- The Arab Spring in the Palestinian Authority -- Israel and the West -- The Arab Spring and Israel -- The legacy of the Arab Spring.
Summary:
"Killing the Arab Spring" tells the stories of the Arab Spring uprising in 15 Middle East states, from the point of view of a secular Middle Eastern political analyst familiar with the politics, the culture of the people and the history of the area.
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