Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza - Engaging the Islamist Social Sector

About the author

Sara Roy
With a new afterword by the author

Summary

Based on author's extensive fieldwork in the Gaza Strip and West Bank during the critical period of the Oslo peace process, this title shows how the social service activities sponsored by the Islamist group emphasized not political violence but rather community development and civic restoration.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Roy, Roy Sara
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2013
• EAN: 9780691159676
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15967-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Palestine, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Religious & theocratic ideologies