The Crisis of Citizenship in the Arab World

The Crisis of Citizenship in the Arab World provides crucial insights into the current political, social and cultural crisis in the Middle East and North Africa by analysing histories, concepts, and practices of citizenship and the mechanisms that undermined them.

About the author

Roel Meijer (Ph.D. 1995), Radboud University, Nijmegen, is Associate Professor in modern Middle Eastern history and has published on social movements, Islam, and political thought in the Middle East. He is editor of seven anthologies, including Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement (Hurst, 2009). He is co-editor with Zahra Babar and James Sater of The Routledge Handbook of Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa (2020).

Nils Butenschøn is Emeritus Professor of political science at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. Research interests include international relations, ethnic conflicts, and democracy focusing on the Middle East. His latest book is Butenschøn et al., Power-Sharing in Conflict-Ridden Societies (Routledge 2015).

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.01.2020
• EAN: 9789004427488
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42748-8
• No. of pages: 558
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 771 g
• Series: Social, Economic and Political
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories