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Author:

Mokhtari, Shadi, 1976-

Title:

After Abu Ghraib : exploring human rights in America and the Middle East / Shadi Mokhtari.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011, c2009

Description:

ix, 260 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Human rights--United States.
Human rights--Middle East.
Abu Ghraib Prison.
Terrorism--Law and legislation--Law and legislation--United States.

Notes:

Originally published in hardcover 2009. Pbk. includes new epilogue, dated Nov. 4, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-256) and index.

Contents:

American imaginings of human rights and the Middle East -- The human rights challenge from within -- The Middle Eastern gaze on American human rights commitments -- American imprints and the Middle East's new human rights landscape -- From the ashes of the post-September 11th era : lessons for the human rights project.

Summary:

This work traverses three pivotal human rights struggles of the post-September 11th era. It presents snapshots of human rights being appropriated, promoted, claimed, reclaimed, and contested within and between the American and Middle Eastern contexts.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society.

ISBN:

9781107401488 (pbk.)
1107401488 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)714301800

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)