The Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East gathers a
diverse team of international scholars, each of whom provides
unique expertise into the status and prospects of minority
populations in the region. The dramatic events of the past decade,
from the Arab Spring protests to the rise of the Islamic state,
have brought the status of these populations onto centre stage. The
overturn of various long-term autocratic governments in states such
as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, and the ongoing threat to
government stability in Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon have all
contributed to a new assertion of majoritarian politics amid
demands for democratization and regime change. In the midst of the
dramatic changes and latent armed conflict, minority populations
have been targeted, marginalized, and victimized. Calls for social
and political change have led many to contemplate the ways in which
citizenship and governance may be changed to accommodate minorities
- or indeed if such change is possible. At a time when the survival
of minority populations and the utility of the label minority has
been challenged, this handbook answers the following set of
research questions.What are the unique challenges of minority
populations in the Middle East? How do minority populations
integrate into their host societies, both as a function of their
own internal choices, and as a response to majoritarian consensus
on their status? Finally, given their inherent challenges, and the
vast, sweeping changes that have taken place in the region over the
past decade, what is the future of these minority populations? What
impact have minority populations had on their societies, and to
what extent will they remain prominent actors in their respective
settings? This handbook presents leading-edge research on a wide
variety of religious, ethnic, and other minority populations. By
reclaiming the notion of minorities in Middle Eastern settings, we
seek to highlight the agency of minority communities in defining
their past, present, and future.
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