"Most of the chapters in this volume were initially presented at a workshop held in Rome on 25-6 March 2011." -- Page [v] Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Will Kymlicka and Eva Pföstl -- Part I: Theoretical and historical perspectives -- The minority question : a view from history and the Kurdish periphery / Janet Klein -- Transformations in the Middle East : the importance of the minority question / Joshua Castellino and Kathleen Cavanaugh -- Minorities in the Arab world : faults, fault-lines and coexistence / Zaid Eyadat -- Arab minorities, liberalism, and multiculturalism / Francesca Maria Corrao and Sebastiano Maffettone -- Part II: Case studies -- Bringing the tribe back in? The Western Sahara dispute, ethno-history, and the imagineering of minority conflicts in the Arab world / Jacob Mundy -- The role of the Amazigh movement in the processes of political reform in postcolonial Algerian society / Eva Pföstl -- The Gulf's servant class / Nicholas McGeehan -- Hobbesian citizenship : how the Palestinians became a minority in Israel / Hassan Jabareen -- The federalization of Iraq and the break-up of Sudan / Brendan O'Leary -- How does the Arab world perceive multiculturalism and treat its minorities? The Assyro-Chaldeans of Iraq as a case study / Joseph Yacoub.
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