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Tripp, Charles.

The power and the people : paths of resistance in the Middle East / Charles Tripp. - New York ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. - xxiii, 385 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Index : p. 375-385.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN: 9780521007269 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Government, Resistance to--History.--Middle East
Protest movements--History.--Middle East
Nonviolence--History.--Middle East

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Middle East--Politics and government--1945-

Subjects--Index Terms:

Index Terms--Genre/Form: --Reading book

Dewey Class. No.: 322.40956 / TRI