Arab Spring The End of Postcolonialism

Name: Arab Spring The End of Postcolonialism
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ISBN: 9781780322230

ISBN-10: 1780322232

ISBN-13: 9781780322230

Edition: 2012

Authors: Hamid Dabashi

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This pioneering elucidation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East. In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, are driven by a "Delayed Defiance" - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment that signifies no less than the end of Postcolonialism. Dabashi shows 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.Ultimately, a "permanent revolutionary mood" has the potential to liberate not…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 5/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.