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The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter, Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was nevertheless not an unmitigated failure, much less an inevitable one. Rather, it was a noble, tragic series of events in which, for the first time in recent Middle Eastern history, Arabic-speaking peoples took free, collective political action as they sought to achieve self-determination. Focusing on the Egyptian revolution and counterrevolution, the Syrian civil war, the rise and fall of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and the Tunisian struggle toward Islamic constitutionalism, Feldman provides an original account of the political consequences of the Arab Spring, including the reaffirmation of pan-Arab identity, the devastation of Arab nationalisms, and the death of political Islam with the collapse of ISIS. He also challenges commentators who say that the Arab Spring was never truly transformative, that Arab popular self-determination was a mirage, and even that Arabs or Muslims are less capable of democracy than other peoples. Above all, The Arab Winter shows that we must not let the tragic outcome of the Arab Spring disguise its inherent human worth. People whose political lives had been determined from the outside tried, and for a time succeeded, in making politics for themselves. That this did not result in constitutional democracy or a better life for most of those affected doesn’t mean the effort didn’t matter. To the contrary, it matters for history—and it matters for the future.

Arab Spring, 2010 --- -Arab Awakening, 2010 --- -Arab countries --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries --- Middle East --- Politics and government

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Asian Migrant Workers in the Arab Gulf States (edited by Masako Ishii, Naomi Hosoda, Masaki Matsuo and Koji Horinuki) examines how nationals and migrants construct new relationships in the segregated socioeconomic spaces of the region (namely, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates). Instead of assuming that segregation is disadvantageous for migrant workers, it emphasizes multiple aspects and presents various voices. In this way, the book tries to unfold the region’s segregated socioeconomic space, as well as its new forms of networking and connectedness, in order to understand how the various peoples coexist: a situation that often entails conflict and discrepancies between expectations and reality.

Foreign workers, Asian --- Alien labor, Asian --- Asian foreign workers --- Arab countries --- Arab countries. --- Golfstaaten --- Emigration and immigration. --- Persischer Golf --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries --- Middle East

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This volume inquires into the working mechanisms, the inner logic, and the durability of authoritarian rule in Arab countries. Written by leading American, European, and Arab experts, the collected essays explore the ongoing political dynamics of the region and show how Arab regimes retain power despite ongoing transformations on regional, national, and international levels and in societal, political, and economic spheres. The findings of this book strongly suggest that democratization remains off the agenda in any Arab country for the foreseeable future. Domestic political protests, international pressure toward more liberal governance, and "reform-oriented" regimes notwithstanding, Debating Arab Authoritarianism indicates that while the impetus for political change is strong, it is in the direction of an adaptation to changed circumstances and may even be a revitalization or consolidation of authoritarian rule rather than a systemic transition to democracy.

Authoritarianism --- Democratization --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies --- Authority --- Arab countries --- Middle East --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries --- Politics and government --- Political systems --- Internal politics --- anno 1970-1979 --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1990-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- Arab states

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Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations explores the Arabic translations of the Greek and Syriac Church Fathers, focusing on those produced in the Palestinian monasteries and at Sinai in the 8th–10th centuries and in Antioch during Byzantine rule (969–1084). These Arabic translations preserve patristic texts lost in the original languages. They offer crucial information about the diffusion and influence of patristic heritage among Middle Eastern Christians from the 8th century to the present. A systematic examination of Arabic patristic translations sheds light on the development of Muslim and Jewish theological thought.

Christianity --- Christian literature, Early --- Christian literature, Arabic --- Fathers of the church, Arabic. --- Translations into Arabic --- History and criticism. --- Arab countries --- Church history. --- Christian literature, Arabic. --- Christianity. --- Arab countries. --- Fathers of the church, Arabic --- History and criticism --- Church history --- Arabic fathers of the church --- Arabic Christian literature --- Arabic literature --- Early Christian literature --- Patristic literature --- Religions --- Translations into Arabic&delete& --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries --- Middle East --- 276 =927 --- 276 =927 Arabische patrologie. Arabische christelijke literatuur --- 276 =927 Patrologie arabe. Litterature chretienne arabe --- Arabische patrologie. Arabische christelijke literatuur --- Patrologie arabe. Litterature chretienne arabe --- Christianity - Arab countries --- Christian literature, Early - Translations into Arabic - History and criticism --- Christian literature, Arabic - History and criticism --- Traductions arabes --- Arab countries - Church history