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Contemporary Islam
Published in: Contemporary Islam 2/2011

01-07-2011

Will the middle class save the Middle East?

Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World, Vali Nasr, Free Press, $26 (cloth) Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East, Deborah Amos, Public Affairs, $26 (cloth) Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and State in Saudi Arabia, Steffen Hertog, Cornell University Press, $35 (cloth)

Author: Lawrence Rosen

Published in: Contemporary Islam | Issue 2/2011

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Is the rise of a middle class crucial to the development of democracy? Have they been central to recent uprisings in the Middle East, or will they be central to the way matters develop when regimes in the region have been overthrown? …
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Title
Will the middle class save the Middle East?
Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World, Vali Nasr, Free Press, $26 (cloth) Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East, Deborah Amos, Public Affairs, $26 (cloth) Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and State in Saudi Arabia, Steffen Hertog, Cornell University Press, $35 (cloth)
Author
Lawrence Rosen
Publication date
01-07-2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Contemporary Islam / Issue 2/2011
Print ISSN: 1872-0218
Electronic ISSN: 1872-0226
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-011-0156-9

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