The Arab uprisings
Subtitle: the people want the fall of the regime
By: Jeremy Bowen
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Simon & Schuster Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780857208866; 9780857208842; 9780857208859; 9780857208873
Subjects: Politics and government; Arab Spring, 2010-; Demokratische Bewegung; Politischer Wandel; Arabischer Frühling; Social conditions; Aufstand; Arab Spring (2010- ) fast (OCoLC)fst01896290
Description: Jeremy Bowen has been the BBC's Middle East correspondent for twelve years and has been on the ground for them as the recent revolutions have swept through the region. Realising this as a game-changing moment in the history of the Middle East, The Arab Uprisings captures the thoughts and feelings of the people involved as the events unfolded, putting these revolutions in their political context, and using them as a prism through which to understand the broader history and landscape of the Middle East. The book will look at the world the demonstrators rejected and its Arab dictators. The author will examine brutal police states, tribal loyalty and foreign help. The West's response and Israel's too, will form part of the narrative. This is an urgent and authoritative account of the seismic political changes rocking the Middle East, from one of the foremost reporters of our time.
Notes: Originally published: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pre-publication title: Unfinished revolutions.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Before the Spring; title: 1. Revolution; title: 2. Capturing Tahrir [Square, Cairo]; title: 3. Counter-revolution; title: 4. Bullet-proof doves of peace; title: 5. Tripoli under the bombs; title: 6. God and politics; title: 7. Put on your uniform, Bashar [al-Assad]; title: 8. The fall; title: 9. Sliding into civil war; title: Epilogue: Down a fault line to the future.