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The power and the people : paths of resistance in the Middle East /

Tripp, Charles.

The power and the people : paths of resistance in the Middle East / Charles Tripp. - xxiii, 385 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-373) and index.

Introduction -- State capture and violent resistance -- Contesting public space: resistance as the denial of authority: resistance through nonviolence -- Imposition and resistance in economic life -- Body politics: women's rights and women's resistance -- History wars: contesting the past, reclaiming the future -- Symbolic forms of resistance: art and power.

9780521809658 (hbk.) 9780521007269 (pbk.)


Government, Resistance to--History.--Middle East
Protest movements--History.--Middle East
Nonviolence--History.--Middle East

322.4095 / T836