The Human Rights Turn And The Paradox Of Progress In The Middle East (middle East Today)
by Mishana Hosseinioun /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book aims to shift the limited and often negative popular
understanding of the Middle East’s place in the world by
chronicling the region’s contributions to the international order
rather than disorder, and to the development of the international
human rights system. It elucidates the many paradoxes that make
the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region both a troubling
place and also a region brimming with great potential for peace,
prosperity and progress. By demonstrating the paradox of human
rights progress amid regress, the book tells a radically new and
more hopeful side of the story of the region that has largely
been obfuscated and omitted from the chronicles of history. In so
doing, it shows that fostering a human rights culture is not only
possible for all universally, it is inevitable.
This book aims to shift the limited and often negative popular
understanding of the Middle East’s place in the world by
chronicling the region’s contributions to the international order
rather than disorder, and to the development of the international
human rights system. It elucidates the many paradoxes that make
the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region both a troubling
place and also a region brimming with great potential for peace,
prosperity and progress. By demonstrating the paradox of human
rights progress amid regress, the book tells a radically new and
more hopeful side of the story of the region that has largely
been obfuscated and omitted from the chronicles of history. In so
doing, it shows that fostering a human rights culture is not only
possible for all universally, it is inevitable.
