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About this book
Voices of Freedom: The Middle East and North Africa showcases essays from activists, journalists, novelists, and scholars whose areas of expertise include free speech, peace and reconciliation, alterity-otherness, and Middle Eastern and North African religions and literatures. Co-edited by TCU colleagues Rima Abunasser and Mark Dennis, the volume is meant to serve as a vehicle for giving dignity and depth to the peoples of these regions by celebrating courageous voices of freedom trying to respond to fundamental, often devastating, changes on the ground, including the Arab Spring, the Syrian refugee crisis, and the rise of the Islamic State. Writing in both the first- and third-person, essayists offer deeply moving portraits of voices that cry out for freedom in chaotic, and oftenviolent, circumstances.Voices of Freedom is aimed at college classes that address the many ways in which freedom intersects with politics, religion, and other elements in the societies of these dynamic and diverse regions. It will serve as a valuable primary source for college teachers interested in exploring with their students the struggle for freedom in non-Western and transnational cultural contexts. The volume is also meant to attract other audiences, including readers from the general public interested in learning about inspirational people from parts of the world about which Americans and other English-speaking peoples are generally unfamiliar.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Accidental Freedoms
- Chapter 2: The Birth and Death of Equal Citizenship in Yemen
- Chapter 3: The Well
- Chapter 4: Individual Freedoms and Rights in Tunisia: An Ever-lasting Struggle
- Chapter 5: Legacies of Exile
- Chapter 6: How To Dismantle an Enemy
- Chapter 7: “Haven’t the Jewish people suffered enough?”
- Chapter 8: Freedom of Expression in Afghanistan: No Room for Tolerance
- Chapter 9: Chronicles of a City We Never Knew
- Chapter 10: “Free Libya”: Revolutions and the Politics of Return
- Chapter 11: The Cost of Freedom: Defamation and the National Security State—A Moroccan Experience