TY - BOOK ID - 7235848 TI - Arab spring dreams : the next generation speaks out for freedom and justice from North Africa to Iran AU - Weddady, Nasser AU - Ahmari, Sohrab AU - Muʼtamar al-Islāmī al-Amrīkī PY - 2012 SN - 9780230115927 0230115926 PB - New York (N.Y.): Palgrave MacMillan, DB - UniCat KW - Youth KW - Youth movements KW - Civil rights KW - Arab Spring, 2010 KW - -Social conditions KW - Political activity KW - Middle East KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - Youth - Middle East - Social conditions KW - Youth - Political activity - Middle East KW - Youth movements - Middle East KW - Youth - Middle East - Biography KW - Civil rights - Middle East KW - -Middle East - Politics and government - 21st century KW - Middle East - Social conditions - 21st century KW - -Middle East UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7235848 AB - "During the Arab Spring, the world saw a long-suppressed group in the Middle East--young people--assert itself and demand its rights. But youthful dissent did not appear overnight; for decades it has been simmering beneath the surface in countries from Saudi Arabia to Yemen, from Iran to Egypt. In Arab Spring Dreams, a number of young Middle Easterners describe their experiences with the region's laws and cultural mores, including the crime of holding hands before marriage, discrimination and harassment over religious beliefs, and young women fighting for the right to complete their educations. They also discuss how previous uprisings, particularly the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, might be channeled to effect change in their own countries. Beautifully written and profoundly moving, these stories present a decisive call for change at a crucial point in the evolution of the Middle East"--Provided by publisher. ER -