Presents profiles of seven pro-democratic individuals in the Middle East, including Mithal al-Alusi of Iraq, Hisham Kassem of Egypt, and Rola Dashti of Kuwait.
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Self-described neoconservative Muravchik (Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins U.) profiles seven individuals in the contemporary Middle East that he argues are working to promote democracy in the region, arguing that "Democracy will in all likelihood come to the Middle East within a generation, and they will be remembered as among its founders." The figures profiled are a Saudi Arabian woman protesting for the right to drive, a former Iraqi Baathist who founded a minor political party following the American invasion and occupation, a former bureaucrat in the Iranian government in the early years after the revolution who went into exile and began publishing opposition materials, an Egyptian newspaper publisher, a Palestinian who worked with the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem and later founded the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, a Kuwaiti woman who worked on the successful effort to open the Kuwaiti parliament to women's participation, and a Syrian critic of his country's leadership. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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