Political Parties in the Middle East

ISBN-13: 9781138390966 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 166 str.

Siavush Randjbar-Daemi; Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi; Lauren Banko

Opis

This comprehensive collection addresses the important question of political parties in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), including Iran, Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, and Morocco. It was originally published as a special issue of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Political parties in MENA: their functions and development  3. Protesting gender discrimination from within: women’s political representation on behalf of Islamic parties  4. ‘We wander in your footsteps’—reciprocity and contractility in Lebanese personality-centred parties  5. The party, the Gama’a and the Tanzim: the organizational dynamics of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s post-2011 failure  6. Party and governance in the Arab republics  7. The origins of Communist Unity: anti-colonialism and revolution in Iran’s tri-continental moment  8. Political Parties and Women’s Rights in Turkey  9. The historical emergence and transformation of the Moroccan political party field  10. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine during the First Intifada: From Opportunity to Marginalization (1987–1990)