Arab Spring, The: The End of Postcolonialism - Couverture souple

Dabashi, Hamid

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780322232 ISBN 13 : 9781780322230

Editeur : Zed Books, 2012

Synopsis

A pioneering exploration of the Arab Spring that will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East. Amid a flood of post-Tahrir Square books Hamid Dabashi looks at the pan-national origins of the events. He argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed so many different countries and political climes, from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, are driven by what he calls 'Delayed Defiance'. Not only are they a rebellion against domestic tyranny but also a revolt against globalized disempowerment that signifies no less than the end of Postcolonialism. He demonstrates how the Arab Spring has altered the geopolitics of the region so radically that we must begin re-imagining the moral map of 'the Middle East' afresh. ----- Dabashi recognises a 'permanent revolutionary mood' in the region that ultimately has the potential to liberate not only those societies already ignited, but many others through a universal geopolitics of hope.

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À propos de l?auteur

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Born in Iran, he received a dual Ph.D. in the sociology of culture and Islamic studies from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Dabashi has written and edited many books, including Iran, the Green Movement and the USA and The Arab Spring, as well as numerous chapters, essays, articles and book reviews. He is an internationally renowned cultural critic, whose writings have been translated into numerous languages.

Dabashi has been a columnist for the Egyptian Al-Ahram Weekly for over a decade, and is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera and CNN. He has been a committed teacher for nearly three decades and is also a public speaker, a current affairs essayist, a staunch anti-war activist and the founder of Dreams of a Nation. He has four children and lives in New York with his wife, the Iranian-Swedish feminist scholar and photographer Golbarg Bashi.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1780322232
• ISBN 13: 9781780322230
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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